geneva 1Chronicles:17:16-27
geneva@1Chronicles:17:16 @ And David the king (note:)He went into the tent where the Ark was, showing what we should do when we receive any benefits from the Lord.(:note) came and sat before the LORD, and said, Who [am] I, O LORD God, and what [is] mine house, that thou hast brought me Meaning to this kingly estate. hitherto?
geneva@1Chronicles:17:17 @ 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 (note:)You have promised a kingdom that will continue to me and my posterity and that Christ will proceed from me.(:note) high degree, O LORD God.
geneva@1Chronicles:17:18 @ What can Dauid desire more of thee for the honour of thy seruant? for thou knowest thy seruant.
geneva@1Chronicles:17:19 @ O LORD, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own (note:)Freely and according to the purpose of your will, without any deserving.(:note) heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all [these] great things.
geneva@1Chronicles:17:20 @ Lorde, there is none like thee, neither is there any God besides thee, according to all that we haue heard with our eares.
geneva@1Chronicles:17:21 @ Moreouer what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whose God went to redeeme them to be his people, and to make thy selfe a Name, and to doe great and terrible things by casting out nations from before thy people, whom thou hast deliuered out of Egypt?
geneva@1Chronicles:17:22 @ For thou hast ordeined thy people Israel to be thine owne people for euer, and thou Lord art become their God.
geneva@1Chronicles:17:23 @ Therefore nowe Lorde, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy seruant & concerning his house, be confirmed for euer, and doe as thou hast sayd,
geneva@1Chronicles:17:24 @ Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts [is] the God of (note:)That is, he shows himself indeed to be their God, by delivering them from dangers, and preserving them.(:note) Israel, [even] a God to Israel: and [let] the house of David thy servant [be] established before thee.
geneva@1Chronicles:17:25 @ For thou, O my God, hast (note:)You have declared to me by Nathan the prophet.(:note) told thy servant that thou wilt build him an house: therefore thy servant hath found [in his heart] to pray before thee.
geneva@1Chronicles:17:26 @ Therefore nowe Lord (for thou art God, & hast spoken this goodnesse vnto thy seruant)
geneva@1Chronicles:17:27 @ Now therfore, it hath pleased thee to blesse the house of thy seruant, that it may bee before thee for euer: for thou, O Lord, hast blessed it, and it shalbe blessed for euer.
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