1 Chronicles 17:19

19 O LORD. [a] For the sake of Your servant and according to Your own heart, You have accomplished this great thing and made known all these great promises.

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 And as if this was a small thing in Your eyes, O God, You have spoken about the future of the house of Your servant and have regarded me as a man of great distinction, O LORD God.
18 What more can David say to You for honoring Your servant? For You know Your servant,
19 O LORD. For the sake of Your servant and according to Your own heart, You have accomplished this great thing and made known all these great promises.
20 O LORD, there is none like You, and there is no God but You, according to everything we have heard with our own ears.
21 And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself? You made a name for Yourself through great and awesome wonders by driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed from Egypt.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. See 2 Samuel 7:20; many translators 18...For You know Your servant. 19 O LORD,
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