A moment in scripture
1 Chronicles 17:18
What can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.
The surrounding passage
- 1 Chronicles 17:16
And David the king came and sat before the Lord, and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?
- 1 Chronicles 17:17
And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast also spoken of thy servant’s house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O Lord God.
- 1 Chronicles 17:19
O Lord, for thy servant’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.
- 1 Chronicles 17:20
O Lord, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.