1 Chronicles 17:19

19 "O LORD, 1for Your servant's sake, and according to Your own heart, You have wrought all this greatness, to make known all these great things.

1 Chronicles 17:19 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 17:19

(See Gill on 1 Chronicles 17:1).

1 Chronicles 17:19 In-Context

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 regarded me according to the standard of a man of high degree, O LORD God.
18 "What more can David still say to You concerning the honor bestowed on Your servant? For You know Your servant.
19 "O LORD , for Your servant's sake, and according to Your own heart, You have wrought all this greatness, to make known all these great things.
20 "O LORD , there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
21 "And what one nation in the earth is like Your people Israel, whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people, to make You a name by great and terrible things, in driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed out of Egypt?

Cross References 1

  • 1. 2 Samuel 7:21; Isaiah 37:35
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