Bible Strands
1 Chronicles 16:17
He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God speaks to the patriarchal line, extending the covenant previously established with Abraham and Isaac to Jacob and Israel at the moment of covenant renewal.
The words — חֹק (Chok) = statute or decree; בְּרִית עוֹלָם (Berit Olam) = covenant of perpetuity.
The thread — The text traces this enduring promise to Genesis 17:7, Genesis 35:11, and Exodus 3:17.
Why it lands — The reader must recognize the covenant as a binding, unchanging decree that establishes a fixed inheritance for the descendants of Jacob.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
Cross-references
- Genesis 17:7 I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
- Genesis 35:11 And God told him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.
- Exodus 3:17 And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’
- Joshua 24:11 After this, you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The people of Jericho fought against you, as did the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand.
- 2 Samuel 23:5 Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an everlasting covenant, ordered and secured in every part. Will He not bring about my full salvation and my every desire?
- Psalms 78:10 They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.
- Isaiah 55:3 Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David.
- Jeremiah 11:2 “Listen to the words of this covenant and tell them to the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.
- Hebrews 13:20 Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,