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1 Chronicles 16:13-15
New English Translation

13 O children[a] of Israel, God’s[b] servant,
you descendants of Jacob, God’s[c] chosen ones!
14 He is the Lord our God;
he carries out judgment throughout the earth.[d]
15 Remember[e] continually his covenantal decree,
the promise he made[f] to a thousand generations—

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 16:13 tn Heb “seed.”
  2. 1 Chronicles 16:13 tn Heb “his”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  3. 1 Chronicles 16:13 tn Heb “his”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  4. 1 Chronicles 16:14 tn Heb “in all the earth [are] his judgments.”
  5. 1 Chronicles 16:15 tn The Hebrew text has a masculine plural imperative, addressed to the people. Some LXX mss harmonize the wording here to Ps 105:8, which has זָכַר (zakhar), the perfect third masculine singular form of the verb, “He (the Lord) remembers” (so NIV; NEB reads “He called to mind his covenant”).
  6. 1 Chronicles 16:15 tn Heb “[the] word he commanded.” The text refers here to God’s unconditional covenantal promise to Abraham and the patriarchs, as vv. 16-18 make clear.
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