Context 18What more can David still say to You concerning the honor bestowed on Your servant? For You know Your servant. 19O LORD, for Your servants sake, and according to Your own heart, You have wrought all this greatness, to make known all these great things. 20O LORD, there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears. 21And what one nation in the earth is like Your people Israel, whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people, to make You a name by great and terrible things, in driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed out of Egypt? 22For Your people Israel You made Your own people forever, and You, O LORD, became their God. 23Now, O LORD, let the word that You have spoken concerning Your servant and concerning his house be established forever, and do as You have spoken. 24Let Your name be established and magnified forever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel; and the house of David Your servant is established before You. 25For You, O my God, have revealed to Your servant that You will build for him a house; therefore Your servant has found courage to pray before You. 26Now, O LORD, You are God, and have promised this good thing to Your servant. 27And now it has pleased You to bless the house of Your servant, that it may continue forever before You; for You, O LORD, have blessed, and it is blessed forever. Parallel Verses American Standard VersionWhat can David'say yet more unto thee concerning the honor which is done to thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant. Douay-Rheims Bible What can David add more, seeing thou hast thus glorified thy servant, and known him? Darby Bible Translation What can David say more to thee for the glory of thy servant? thou indeed knowest thy servant. English Revised Version What can David say yet more unto thee concerning the honour which is done to thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant. Webster's Bible Translation What can David speak more to thee for the honor of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant. World English Bible What can David say yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant? For you know your servant. Young's Literal Translation 'What doth David add more unto Thee for the honour of Thy servant; and Thou Thy servant hast known. Library Amasiah'Amasiah, the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself unto the Lord.'--1 CHRON. xvii, 16. This is a scrap from the catalogue of Jehoshaphat's 'mighty men of valour'; and is Amasiah's sole record. We see him for a moment and hear his eulogium and then oblivion swallows him up. We do not know what it was that he did to earn it. But what a fate, to live to all generations by that one sentence! I. Cheerful self-surrender the secret of all religion. The words of our text contain a metaphor naturally … Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture The Promise in 2 Samuel, Chap. vii. The Cavils of the Pharisees Concerning Purification, and the Teaching of the Lord Concerning Purity - the Traditions Concerning Hand-Washing' and Vows. ' The Divine Jesus. Chronicles Links 1 Chronicles 17:18 NIV • 1 Chronicles 17:18 NLT • 1 Chronicles 17:18 ESV • 1 Chronicles 17:18 NASB • 1 Chronicles 17:18 KJV • 1 Chronicles 17:18 Bible Apps • 1 Chronicles 17:18 Parallel • Bible Hub |