18 "What more can David say to you for honoring your servant? For you know your servant,
18 What can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.
18 And what more can David say to you for honoring your servant? For you know your servant.
18 What's left for David to say to this - to your honoring your servant, even though you know me, just as I am?
18 What more can David say to You for the honor of Your servant? For You know Your servant.
18 "What more can I say to you about the way you have honored me? You know what your servant is really like.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 1 Chronicles 17:18
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David's purposes; God's gracious promises.
This chapter is the same as Isaiah 42:1; and it is for his sake, upon account of his mediation, that the promises are made good to all believers; it is in him, that they are yea and amen. For His sake it is done, for his sake it is made known; to him we owe all this greatness, from him we are to expect all these great things. They are the unsearchable riches of Christ, which, if by faith we see in themselves, and see in the Lord Jesus, we cannot but magnify as the only true greatness, and speak honourably of them. For this blessedness may we look amidst the trials of life, and when we feel the hand of death upon us; and seek it for our children after us.