1 Chronicles 17:19
Good News Translation
It was your will and purpose to do this for me and to show me my future greatness.

New Revised Standard Version
For your servant’s sake, O LORD, and according to your own heart, you have done all these great deeds, making known all these great things.

Contemporary English Version
It was your choice to do these wonderful things for me and to make these promises.

New American Bible
LORD, for your servant’s sake and in keeping with your purpose, you have done this great thing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
O Lord, for thy servant's sake, according to thy own heart, thou hast shewn all this magnificence, and wouldst have all the great things to be known.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

O Lord, for thy servant's sake, according to thy own heart, thou hast shewn all this magnificence, and wouldst have all the great things to be known.

thy servant

Isaiah 37:35 And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own sake, and for the sake of David my servant.

Isaiah 42:1 Behold my servant, I will uphold him: my elect, my soul delighteth in him: I have given my spirit upon him, he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

Isaiah 49:3,5,6 And he said to me: Thou art my servant Israel, for in thee will I glory. . . .

Daniel 9:17 Now, therefore, O our God, hear the supplication of thy servant, and his prayers: and shew thy face upon thy sanctuary, which is desolate, for thy own sake.

according

Matthew 11:26 Yea, Father: for so hath it seemed good in thy sight.

Ephesians 1:9-11 That he might make known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in him, . . .

Ephesians 3:11 According to the eternal purpose which he made in Christ Jesus our Lord:

great things [heb] greatness

1 Chronicles 29:11,12 Thine, O Lord, is magnificence, and power, and glory, and victory: and to thee is praise: for all that is in heaven, and in earth, is thine: thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art above all princes. . . .

Psalm 111:3,6 His work is praise and magnificence: and his justice continueth for ever and ever. . . .

Context
David's Prayer of Thanksgiving
18What can David add more, seeing thou hast thus glorified thy servant, and known him? 19O Lord, for thy servant's sake, according to thy own heart, thou hast shewn all this magnificence, and wouldst have all the great things to be known.20O Lord there is none like thee: and here is no other God beside thee, of all whom we have heard of with our ears.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:21
For thy word's sake, and according to thy own heart thou has done all these great things, so that thou wouldst make it known to thy servant.

1 Chronicles 17:18
What can David add more, seeing thou hast thus glorified thy servant, and known him?

1 Chronicles 17:20
O Lord there is none like thee: and here is no other God beside thee, of all whom we have heard of with our ears.

Isaiah 37:35
And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own sake, and for the sake of David my servant.

1 Chronicles 17:18
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