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1 Chronicles 17:18 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" What can David say yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant? For you know your servant. "
1 Chronicles 17:18
Verse in Context
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16 Then David the king went in and sat before the LORD; and he said, “Who am I, LORD God, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?
17 This was a small thing in your eyes, O God, but you have spoken of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have respected me according to the standard of a man of high degree, LORD God.
18 What can David say yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant? For you know your servant.
19 LORD, for your servant’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness, to make known all these great things.
20 LORD, there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
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1 Chronicles 17:1
"When David was living in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I live in a cedar house, but the ark of the LORD’s covenant is in a tent.”"
1 Chronicles 17:2
"Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you.”"
1 Chronicles 17:3
"That same night, the word of God came to Nathan, saying,"
1 Chronicles 17:4
"“Go and tell David my servant, ‘The LORD says, “You shall not build me a house to dwell in;"
1 Chronicles 17:5
"for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tent to another."
1 Chronicles 17:6
"In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’”’"
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