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Young's Literal Translation

1 Chronicles 17:18

`What doth David add more unto Thee for the honour of Thy servant; and Thou Thy servant hast known.

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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
What shall Dauid desire more of thee for the honour of thy seruaunt? For thou hast knowen thy seruaunt.
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.
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 David the king cometh in and sitteth before Jehovah, and saith, `Who [am] I, O Jehovah God, and what my house, that Thou hast brought me hitherto? 17 And this is small in Thine eyes, O God, and Thou speakest concerning the house of thy servant afar off, and hast seen me as a type of the man who is on high, O Jehovah God! 18 `What doth David add more unto Thee for the honour of Thy servant; and Thou Thy servant hast known. 19 O Jehovah, for Thy servant's sake, and according to Thine own heart Thou hast done all this greatness, to make known all these great things. 20 O Jehovah, there is none like Thee, and there is no god save Thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears. 21 `And who [is] as Thy people Israel, one nation in the earth whom God hath gone to ransom to Him for a people, to make for Thee a name great and fearful, to cast out from the presence of Thy people whom Thou hast ransomed out of Egypt -- nations? 22 Yea, Thou dost appoint Thy people Israel to Thee for a people unto the age, and Thou, O Jehovah, hast been to them for God. 23 `And now, O Jehovah, the word that Thou hast spoken concerning Thy servant, and concerning his house, let be stedfast unto the age, and do as Thou hast spoken; 24 and let it be stedfast, and Thy name is great unto the age, saying, Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, is God to Israel, and the house of Thy servant David is established before Thee; 25 for Thou, O my God, Thou hast uncovered the ear of Thy servant -- to build to him a house, therefore hath Thy servant found 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
when thou tillest the ground, it doth not add to give its strength to thee -- a wanderer, even a trembling one, thou art in the earth.'
Genesis 4:14
lo, Thou hast driven me to-day from off the face of the ground, and from Thy face I am hid; and I have been a wanderer, even a trembling one, in the earth, and it hath been -- every one finding me doth slay me.'
Psalms 4:6
Many are saying, `Who doth show us good?' Lift on us the light of Thy face, O Jehovah,
Psalms 41:12
As to me, in mine integrity, Thou hast taken hold upon me, And causest me to stand before Thee to the age.
Isaiah 59:2
But your iniquities have been separating Between you and your God, And your sins have hidden The Presence from you -- from hearing.
Jeremiah 32:39
and I have given to them one heart, and one way, to fear Me all the days, for good to them, and to their sons after them:
Acts 2:39
for to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all those afar off, as many as the Lord 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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