KJV King James Version
What can David [speak] more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.
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1 Chronicles 17:18
What can David [speak] more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
What more can David say to You for honoring Your servant? For You know Your servant,
WEB 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.
ASV 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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘What doth David add more unto Thee for the honour of Thy servant; and Thou Thy servant hast known.
Surrounding context — 1 Chronicles 17
15 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
16 And David the king came and sat before the LORD, and said, Who [am] I, O LORD God, and what [is] mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?
17 And [yet] this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast [also] spoken of thy servant’s house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O LORD God.
18 What can David [speak] more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.
19 O LORD, for thy servant’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all [these] great things.
20 O LORD, [there is] none like thee, neither [is there any] God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
21 And what one nation in the earth [is] like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem [to be] his own people, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt?
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
מַה־H4100 · mahwhat?יּוֹסִ֨יףH3254 · ya.saphto add: againע֥וֹדH5750 · odstillדָּוִ֛ידH1732 · da.vidDavidאֵלֶ֖יךָH413 · elto(wards)לְכָב֣וֹדH3519 · ka.vodgloryאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]עַבְדֶּ֑ךָH5650 · e.vedservant/slaveוְאַתָּ֖הH859 · at.tahyou(m.s.)אֶֽת־H853 · et[Obj.]עַבְדְּךָ֥H5650 · e.vedservant/slaveיָדָֽעְתָּ׃H3045 · ya.dato know
Cross-references
Revelation 2:23And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.1 Samuel 16:7But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for [the LORD seeth] not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.1 Samuel 2:30Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed [that] thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.John 21:17He saith unto him the third time, Simon, [son] of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.Psalm 139:1To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known [me].2 Samuel 7:20-24And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy servant.
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