1 Chronicles 17:18
◄  1 Chronicles 17:18  ►
New International Version (©2011)
"What more can David say to you for honoring your servant? For you know your servant,

New Living Translation (©2007)
"What more can I say to you about the way you have honored me? You know what your servant is really like.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And what more can David say to you for honoring your servant? For you know your servant.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"What more can David still say to You concerning the honor bestowed on Your servant? For You know Your servant.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
What can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
What more can David say to You for honoring Your servant? You know Your servant.

International Standard Version (©2012)
"What more can David say to you about how you are honoring your servant, and you surely know your servant.

NET Bible (©2006)
What more can David say to you? You have honored your servant; you have given your servant special recognition.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"What more can I do for you in light of the honor [you have given] to me and since you know me so well!

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
What can David speak more to you for the honor of your servant? for you know your servant.

American King James Version
What can David speak more to you for the honor of your servant? for you know your servant.

American Standard Version
What 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.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

17:1-27 David's purposes; God's gracious promises. - This chapter is the same as 2Sa 7. See what is there said upon it. It is very observable that what in Samuel is said to be, for thy word's sake, is here said to be, "for thy servant's sake," ver. 19. Jesus Christ is both the Word of God, Re 19:13, and the Servant of God, Isa 42:1; and it is for his sake, upon account of his mediation, that the promises are made good to all believers; it is in him, that they are yea and amen. For His sake it is done, for his sake it is made known; to him we owe all this greatness, from him we are to expect all these great things. They are the unsearchable riches of Christ, which, if by faith we see in themselves, and see in the Lord Jesus, we cannot but magnify as the only true greatness, and speak honourably of them. For this blessedness may we look amidst the trials of life, and when we feel the hand of death upon us; and seek it for our children after us.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 18. - Thy servant. The Septuagint Version has not got these words on their first occurrence. They may have found their way in wrongfully out of the next clause. They are not found in the parallel place. If they remain, they can mean nothing else than "How can David further acknowledge the honour conferred on thy servant," - a sense by no means far-fetched.

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David's Prayer
16And David the king came and sat before the LORD, and said, Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my house, that you have brought me till now? 17And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O God; for you have also spoken of your servant's house for a great while to come, and have regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O LORD God. 18What can David speak more to you for the honor of your servant? for you know your servant. …

1 Chronicles 17:17 And as if this were not enough in your sight, my God, you have spoken about the future of the house of your servant. You, LORD God, have looked on me as though I were the most exalted of men.
1 Chronicles 17:19 LORD. For the sake of your servant and according to your will, you have done this great thing and made known all these great promises.