17This was a small thing in your eyes, God; but you have spoken of your servant's house for a great while to come, and have respected me according to the estate of a man of high degree, Yahweh God.


In Context

14 but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever. His throne shall be established forever.|'|

15 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.

16 Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, |Who am I, Yahweh God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?

17 This was a small thing in your eyes, God; but you have spoken of your servant's house for a great while to come, and have respected me according to the estate of a man of high degree, Yahweh God.

18 What can David say yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant? For you know your servant.

19 Yahweh, for your servant's sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make known all these great things.

1 Chronicles 17:17 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

17:17And as if this were not enough in your sight, O God, you have spoken about the future of the house of your servant. You have looked on me as though I were the most exalted of men, O Lord God.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

17:17And [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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

17:17But 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

17:17And 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:17And this hath been a small thing in thy sight, O God; and thou hast spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the rank of a man of high degree, Jehovah Elohim.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

17:17And 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 LORD God.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:17And yet this was a small thing in thy 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

17:17And this is small in Thine eyes, O God, and Thou speakest concerning the house of thy servant afar off, and hast seen me as a type of the man who is on high, O Jehovah God!

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

17:17And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O God; for you have also 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.