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Bishop's Bible

1 Chronicles 17:18

What shall Dauid desire more of thee for the honour of thy seruaunt? For thou hast knowen thy seruaunt.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - David;   Humility;   Parents;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Synagogue;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
What more can David say to you for honoring your servant? You know your servant.
Hebrew Names Version
What can David [say] yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant? for you know your servant.
King James Version
What can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.
English Standard Version
And what more can David say to you for honoring your servant? For you know your servant.
New Century Version
"What more can I say to you for honoring me, your servant? You know me so well.
New English Translation
What more can David say to you? You have honored your servant; you have given your servant special recognition.
Amplified Bible
"What more can David say to You for the honor granted to Your servant? For You know Your servant.
New American Standard Bible
"What more can David still say to You concerning the honor bestowed on Your servant? For You know Your 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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
What can Dauid desire more of thee for the honour of thy seruant? for thou knowest thy seruant.
Legacy Standard Bible
Again what more can David say to You concerning the glory bestowed on Your slave? You know Your slave.
Berean Standard Bible
What more can David say to You for so honoring Your servant? For You know Your servant,
Contemporary English Version
I am your servant, and you know my thoughts. What else can I say, except that you have honored me?
Complete Jewish Bible
What more can David say to you about the honor you are bestowing on your servant? For you know your servant intimately.
Darby Translation
What can David [say] more to thee for the glory of thy servant? thou indeed knowest thy servant.
Easy-to-Read Version
What more can I say? You have done so much for me. And I am only your servant. You know that.
George Lamsa Translation
What more can David boast to speak before thee? For the works of thy servant are known, O LORD God.
Good News Translation
What more can I say to you! You know me well, and yet you honor me, your servant.
Lexham English Bible
What more can David do to you for honoring your servant? Now you know your servant.
Literal Translation
What can David add still more to You concerning the honor being put on Your servant? For You know Your servant.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
What more shal Dauid saye vnto the, yt thou bryngest yi seruaunt to soch honoure? Thou knowest thy seruaunt
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.
Bible in Basic English
What more may David say to you? for you have knowledge of your servant.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
What can David say yet more unto Thee concerning the honour which is done to Thy servant? for Thou knowest Thy servant.
King James Version (1611)
What can Dauid speake more to thee for the honour of thy seruant? for thou knowest thy seruant.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
What shall David do more toward thee to glorify thee? and thou 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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
My Lord God, what may Dauid adde more, sithen thou hast so glorified thi seruaunt, and hast knowe hym?
Update Bible Version
What can David [say] yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your slave? for you know your slave.
Webster's Bible Translation
What can David [speak] more to thee for the honor of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.
New King James Version
What more can David say to You for the honor of Your servant? For You know Your servant.
New Living Translation
"What more can I say to you about the way you have honored me? You know what your servant is really like.
New Life Bible
What more can David say to You about the honor given to Your servant? For You know Your servant.
New Revised Standard
And what more can David say to you for honoring your servant? You know your servant.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
What, yet further, can David say unto thee, thus to honour thy servant, - seeing that, thou thyself, knowest, thine own servant?
Douay-Rheims Bible
What can David add more, seeing thou hast thus glorified thy servant, and known him?
Revised Standard Version
And what more can David say to thee for honoring thy servant? For thou knowest thy servant.
Young's Literal Translation
`What doth David add more unto Thee for the honour of Thy servant; and Thou Thy servant hast known.
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.

Contextual Overview

16 And Dauid the king came and sate before the Lord, and sayde: What am I O Lord God, and what is myne houshold, that thou hast promoted me thus farre? 17 And yet this seemed litle in thyne eyes, O God: But thou hast also spoken of thy seruauntes house for a great whyle to come, and hast loked vpon me as vpon a man of hye degree, O Lorde God. 18 What shall Dauid desire more of thee for the honour of thy seruaunt? For thou hast knowen thy seruaunt. 19 O Lord, for thy seruauntes sake, euen according to thine owne heart, hast thou done all this magnificence, to shewe all great thinges. 20 Lord there is none like thee, neither is there any God saue thou, according to al that we haue hearde with our eares. 21 Moreouer, what nation on the earth is like thy people Israel, to whom God hath vouchsafed to come and redeeme them to be his owne people, and to make thee a name of excellencie & terriblenes, with casting out nations from before the people, whom thou hast deliuered out of Egypt? 22 Thy people of Israel diddest thou make thyne owne people for euer, and thou becamest their God. 23 Therfore now Lord, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy seruaunt & his house, be true for euer, that thou Lord do as thou hast sayde: 24 Let it come to passe, that thy name may be magnified for euer, that it may be said, The Lord of hoastes is the God of Israel, euen the God of Israel, and the house of Dauid thy seruaunt endureth stable before thee. 25 For thou O my God, hast tolde thy seruaunt that thou wilt buylde him an house, and therefore thy seruaunt hath founde in his heart to pray before thee.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the honour: 1 Samuel 2:30, 2 Samuel 7:20-24

thou knowest: 1 Samuel 16:7, Psalms 139:1, John 21:17, Revelation 2:23

Cross-References

Genesis 4:12
If thou tyll the grounde, she shall not yeelde vnto thee her strength. A fugitiue and a vacabound shalt thou be in the earth.
Genesis 4:14
Beholde, thou hast cast me out this day from the vpper face of the earth, & from thy face shall I be hyd, fugitiue also and a vacabounde shall I be in the earth: and it shall come to passe, that euery one that fyndeth me shal slay me.
Psalms 4:6
There be many that say, who wyll shewe vs [any] good? O God lift thou vp the light of thy countenaunce vpon vs.
Psalms 41:12
And when I am in my best case, thou vpholdest me: and thou wylt set me before thy face for euer.
Isaiah 59:2
But your misdeedes haue seperated you from your God, and your sinnes hyde his face from you, that he heareth you not.
Jeremiah 32:39
And I wyll geue them one heart and one way, that they may feare me al the dayes of their lyfe: that they and their chyldren after them may prosper.
Acts 2:39
For the promise was made vnto you, and to your chyldren, and to all that are a farre of, euen as many as the Lorde our God shall call.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

See Gill "1Ch 17:1".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the honor of thy servant - i. e., “for the honor which Thou hast done for Thy servant.” The Septuagint omits “Thy servant,” and renders it: “What can David say more to Thee to glorify Thee? For Thou knowest,” etc.


 
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