2 Samuel 7:20

Contemporary English Version

I am your servant, and you know my thoughts, so there is nothing more that I need to say.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
What more can David say to you? You know your servant, Lord God.

Hebrew Names Version
What can David say more to you? for you know your servant, Lord GOD.

King James Version
And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord God , knowest thy servant.

Lexham English Bible
What more can David say to you? You know your servant, my lord Yahweh.

English Standard Version
And what more can David say to you? For you know your servant, O Lord God !

New Century Version
"What more can I say to you, Lord God , since you know me, your servant, so well!

New English Translation
What more can David say to you? You have given your servant special recognition, O Lord God!

Amplified Bible
"What more can David say to You? For You know (acknowledge, choose) Your servant, O Lord GOD.

New American Standard Bible
"Again what more can David say to You? For You know Your servant, Lord GOD!

Geneva Bible (1587)
And what can Dauid say more vnto thee? for thou, Lord God, knowest thy seruant.

Legacy Standard Bible
And again what more can David say to You? And You know Your slave, O Lord Yahweh!

Complete Jewish Bible
what more can David say to you? For you know your servant intimately, Adonai Elohim .

Darby Translation
And what can David say more to thee? for thou, Lord Jehovah, knowest thy servant.

Easy-to-Read Version
How can I continue talking to you? Lord God , you know that I am only a servant.

George Lamsa Translation
And what more can thy servant David say to thee? For thou knowest thy servant, O LORD God.

Good News Translation
What more can I say to you! You know me, your servant.

Literal Translation
And what more can David say to You? And You know Your servant, O Lord Jehovah.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And what shall Dauid speake vnto the? thou knowest thy seruaunt O LORDE God,

American Standard Version
And what can David say more unto thee? for thou knowest thy servant, O Lord Jehovah.

Bible in Basic English
What more may David say to you? for you have knowledge of your servant, O Lord God.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And what can Dauid say more vnto thee? for thou Lorde God knowest thy seruaunt.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And what can David say more unto Thee? for Thou knowest Thy servant, O Lord GOD.

King James Version (1611)
And what can Dauid say more vnto thee? for thou, Lord God, knowest thy seruant.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And what shall David yet say to thee? and now thou knowest thy servant, O Lord, my Lord.

English Revised Version
And what can David say more unto thee? for thou knowest thy servant, O Lord GOD.

Berean Standard Bible
What more can David say to You? For You know Your servant, O Lord GOD.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
what therfor may Dauid adde yit, that he speke to thee? For thou, Lord God, knowist thi seruaunt; thou hast do alle these grete thingis,

Young's Literal Translation
And what doth David add more to speak unto Thee? and Thou, Thou hast known Thy servant, Lord Jehovah.

Update Bible Version
And what more can David say to you? for you know your slave, O Lord Yahweh.

Webster's Bible Translation
And what can David say more to thee? for thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy servant.

World English Bible
What can David say more to you? for you know your servant, Lord Yahweh.

New King James Version
Now what more can David say to You? For You, Lord GOD, know Your servant.

New Living Translation
"What more can I say to you? You know what your servant is really like, Sovereign Lord .

New Life Bible
What more can David say to You? For You know Your servant, O Lord God.

New Revised Standard
And what more can David say to you? For you know your servant, O Lord God !

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
What more, then, can David yet further speak unto thee, - seeing that, thou thyself knowest thy servant, O My Lord Yahweh?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And what can David say more unto thee? for thou knowest thy servant, O Lord God:

Revised Standard Version
And what more can David say to thee? For thou knowest thy servant, O Lord GOD!

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Again what more can David say to You? For You know Your servant, O Lord GOD!

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ David went into the tent he had set up for the sacred chest. Then he sat there and prayed: Lord All-Powerful, my family and I don't deserve what you have already done for us, ¹⁹ and yet you have promised to do even more. Is this the way you usually treat people? ²⁰ I am your servant, and you know my thoughts, so there is nothing more that I need to say. ²¹ You have done this wonderful thing, and you have let me know about it, because you wanted to keep your promise. ²² Lord All-Powerful, you are greater than all others. No one is like you, and you alone are God. Everything we have heard about you is true. ²³ And there is no other nation on earth like Israel, the nation you rescued from slavery in Egypt to be your own. You became famous by using great and wonderful miracles to force other nations and their gods out of your land, so your people could live here. ²⁴ You have chosen Israel to be your people forever, and you have become their God. ²⁵ And now, Lord God, please do what you have promised me and my descendants. ²⁶ Then you will be famous forever, and everyone will say, "The Lord God All-Powerful rules Israel, and David's descendants are his chosen kings." ²⁷ After all, you really are Israel's God, the Lord All-Powerful. You've told me that you will let my descendants be kings. That's why I have the courage to pray to you like this, even though I am only your servant.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

knowest: Genesis 18:19, 1 Samuel 16:7, Psalms 139:1, John 2:25, John 21:17, Hebrews 4:13, Revelation 2:23

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 17:18 - the honour Psalms 108:7 - I will rejoice John 21:15 - thou knowest

Cross-References

Psalms 104:6
You covered the earth with the ocean that rose above the mountains.

Jeremiah 3:23
On hilltops, we worshiped idols and made loud noises, but it was all for nothing— only you can save us.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And what can David say more unto thee,.... In a way of self-abasement, or in thankfulness for such wonderful favours, or in prayer for more and other mercies; he wants words, as if he should say, to express his sense of his own nothingness and unworthiness, and to praise the Lord for all his benefits; and so large are the grants and promises made, that there is no room for him to ask for more:

for thou, Lord God, knowest thy servant; what a sense he has of his own meanness and vileness, what gratitude his heart is filled with, and what his wants and necessities are, which God only can supply, and does abundantly, even more than he is able to ask or think. The Targum is,

"and thou hast performed the petition of thy servant, O Lord God.''

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 7:20. What can David say more — How can I express my endless obligation to thee?