📖WEB · 1 Chronicles 17:18
What does 1 Chronicles 17:18 mean?
"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 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.
Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Yahweh God, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?
This was a small thing in your eyes, 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, Yahweh God.
What can David say yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant? For you know your servant.
Yahweh, for your servant’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness, to make known all these great things.
Yahweh, there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeem out of Egypt?
Explanation
First Chronicles 17:18 falls within a passage where King David responds to a remarkable message from God. David had wanted to build a temple for the Lord, but through the prophet Nathan, God tells him that instead of David building God a house, God will build David a "house" — a lasting dynasty, with a descendant whose throne will be established forever. Overwhelmed by this promise, David goes before the Lord and prays. In this particular verse, David is essentially saying, "What more could I possibly say to you about the honor you have shown me? You already know me completely." It is an admission that words are insufficient — not because David has
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