I also gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your bosom, and I gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. Now if that were too little, then I would have added to you so much more.
1 Chronicles 17:17 - Tree of Life Version And this was not enough in Your eyes, O God! You have spoken about the future of Your servant’s household. You have regarded me as the most distinquished of men, Adonai Elohim. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And yet this was a small thing in Your eyes, O God; for You have spoken of Your servant's house for a great while to come, and have regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O Lord God! American Standard Version (1901) And this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; but thou hast 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 Jehovah God. Common English Bible But even this was too small in your eyes, God. You have spoken about the future of your servant’s dynasty and have chosen me as an important person, LORD God. Catholic Public Domain Version But even this has seemed little in your sight, and therefore you have also spoken about the house of your servant even for the future. And you have made me a spectacle above all men, O Lord God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But even this hath seemed little in thy sight: and therefore thou hast also spoken concerning the house of thy servant for the time to come; and best made me remarkable above all men, O Lord God. |
I also gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your bosom, and I gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. Now if that were too little, then I would have added to you so much more.
Yet this was a small thing in Your eyes, my Lord Adonai—for You have spoken also of Your servant’s house for the distant future. This is a revelation for humanity, my Lord Adonai.
Moreover I have also given you what you did not request—both riches and honor—so that no one among the kings will be like you all your days.
Yet this is an easy thing in Adonai’s eyes—for He will also deliver the Moabites into your hand.
Then King David went in and sat before Adonai, and said, “Who am I, Adonai Elohim, and what is my family, that You have brought me thus far?
“What more can David say to You for honoring Your servant? For You know Your servant.
So He says, “It is too trifling a thing that You should be My servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and restore the preserved ones of Israel. So I will give You as a light for the nations, that You should be My salvation to the end of the earth.”
Now to Him who is able to do far beyond all that we ask or imagine, by means of His power that works in us,