1 Chronicles 17:16-27

1599 Geneva Bible

¹⁶ ¶ And David the king ^[a]went in and ^[b]sat before the Lord, and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me ^[c]hitherto?

¹⁷ Yet thou esteeming this a small thing, O God, hast also spoken concerning the house of thy servant for a great while, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of ^[d]high degree, O Lord God.

¹⁸ What can David desire more of thee for the honor of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.

¹⁹ O Lord, for thy servant’s sake, even according to thine ^[e]heart hast thou done all this great thing to declare all magnificence.

²⁰ Lord, there is none like thee, neither is there any God besides thee according to all that we have heard with our ears.

²¹ Moreover what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whose God went to redeem them to be his people, and to make thyself a Name, and to do great and terrible things by casting out Nations from before thy people, whom thou hast delivered out of Egypt?

²² For thou hast ordained thy people Israel to be thine own people forever, and thou Lord art become their God.

²³ Therefore now Lord, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, be confirmed forever, and do as thou hast said,

²⁴ And let thy Name be stable and magnified forever, that it may be said, The Lord of hosts, God of Israel, is the God of ^[f]Israel, and let the house of David thy servant be established before thee.

²⁵ For thou, O my God, hast ^[g]revealed unto the ear of thy servant, that thou wilt build him an house: therefore thy servant hath ^[h]been bold to pray before thee.

²⁶ Therefore now Lord (for thou art ^[i]God, and hast spoken this goodness unto thy servant.)

²⁷ Now therefore it hath pleased thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee forever: for thou, O Lord, hast blessed it, and it shall be blessed forever.