What does 1 Chronicles 17:18 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"What can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant."
FOR THE HONOR OF THY SERVANT - i. e., “for the honor which Thou hast done for Thy servant.” The Septuagint omits “Thy servant,” and renders it: “What can David say more to Thee to glorify Thee? For Th...
7. THE COVENANT AND THE PROMISE CHAPTER 17 _ 1. David's plan to build a house (1 Chronicles 17:1)_ 2. The covenant and the promise (1 Chronicles 17:7) 3. David's praise and prayer (1 Chronicles 17...
DAVIDS PURPOSE TO BUILD A TEMPLE IS HINDERED BY NATHAN; GOD'S PROMISE TO HIM; HIS PRAYER (see notes on 2 Samuel 7). 1 Chronicles 17:1. in his house: the words in 2 Samuel 7:1, and the Lord had given...
speak _more_ R.V. SAY YET MORE. _for the honour of thy servant_ R.V. CONCERNING THE HONOUR WHICH IS DONE TO THY SERVANT. Samuel omits these words. _thou knowest thy servant_ Approvest, acceptest; cp...
LESSON EIGHT 17-18 DAVID AND THE TEMPLE. ISRAEL GOES TO WAR. 9. DAVID'S PLANS FOR THE TEMPLE (Chapter 17) INTRODUCTION David's purpose to build the Temple resulted in Jehovah's revelation of the et...
DAVID'S DESIRE TO BUILD THE TEMPLE DISALLOWED This chapter is almost identical with 2 Samuel 7:1....
THE BOOK OF 1 CHRONICLES GOD RULES HISTORY 1 CHRONICLES _Ian Mackervoy_ CHAPTER 17 GOD’S SPECIAL PROMISE TO DAVID – 1 CHRONICLES 17:1-27 THE *LORD SPEAKS TO DAVID – 1 CHRONICLES 17:1-15 V1 Wh...
Samuel has the omitted “speak.” (Comp. Psalms 120:3.) The word translated “for the honour,” may be a corruption of that for “to speak.” OF THY SERVANT? — The Hebrew term is in the accusative case, an...
מַה ־יֹּוסִ֨יף עֹ֥וד דָּוִ֛יד אֵלֶ֖יךָ לְ כָבֹ֣וד אֶת ־עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ וְ אַתָּ֖ה אֶֽת ־עַבְדְּךָ֥ יָדָֽעְתָּ׃
The presence of the Ark in the city seems to have created in David the desire to provide for it a permanent and more worthy resting place. He declared his desire to Nathan. The prophet, acting without...
_Known him. Treating him with love and tenderness, as a friend. How can David sufficiently testify his gratitude?_...
For the sake of shortness, I must again refer the Reader to the Commentary on this conduct of David, as it is written on the 7th chapter of the 2nd book of Samuel (2 Samuel 7:1). In addition to what i...
But although David was to connect kingly power in Zion with the ark of the covenant, and thus to secure blessing by the power of the king whom God had chosen, yet the warrior king was not to build the...
See Gill "1Ch 17:1"....
What can David [speak] more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant. Ver. 18. _For thou knowest thy servant,_] _i.e., _ Thou knowest the thankfulness of my mind, which ind...
_For the honour of thy servant_ The honour God puts upon his servants, by taking them into covenant and communion with himself, is so great, that they need not, they cannot desire to be more highly ho...
1 Nathan first approouing the purpose of Dauid, to build God an house, 3 after by the word of God forbiddeth him. 11 Hee promiseth him blessings and benefits in his seed. 16 Dauids prayer and thank...
David Accepts God's Promises With Thankfulness...
No text from Poole on this verse....
1 Chronicles 17:18 more H3254 (H8686) David H1732 honor H3519 servant H5650 know H3045 (H8804) servant H5650 the honour - 1 Samuel 2:30; 2 Samuel 7:20-24 thou knowest - 1 Samuel 16:7; Psalms 139:1;...
CONTENTS: David's desire to build the temple. The Davidie covenant and David's prayer. CHARACTERS: God, David, Nathan. CONCLUSION: Thrice happy is that people whose God is Jehovah, for He will be to...
REFLECTIONS. In a temporal view the promise made to David, that his house should for ever fill the throne of Israel, must be regarded as a branch of the great national covenant, and consequently subje...
_And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O Lord._ A MODEL OF DEVOUT THANKSGIVING I. Over what he rejoices. 1. Over great blessings received. 2. Over yet greater blessings promised. II. In w...
1 CHRONICLES 17:1 The Dynastic Promise to David. See 2 Samuel 7:1 and note. God’s promise to David is central to Chronicles. Israel’s identity as God’s people will be expressed through the Davidic dyn...
CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter coincides with 2 Samuel 7—records David’s purpose to build a house for God (1 Chronicles 17:1), and Nathan’s approval. God refuses to permit this, promises a perpetual ki...
EXPOSITION This chapter is paralleled by 2 Samuel 7:1; and the parallel is for the most part very close. The purport of the two accounts may be said to be identical, while the variations of some few w...
And Nathan the prophet said, [Good,] do all that is in your heart; for God is with thee. And it came to pass the same night, that the Lord spoke to Nathan the prophet, and said, Go and tell David my s...
1 Samuel 16:7; 1 Samuel 2:30; 2 Samuel 7:20; John 21:17; Psalms 139:1; Revelation 2:23...
The honour of thy servant — The honour God puts upon his servants, by taking them into covenant and communion with himself, is so great, that they need not, they cannot desire to be more highly honour...