1 Chronicles 17:25

For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a house. Therefore your servant has found courage to pray before you.

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

In The King James Version

For thou, O my God, hast told thy servant that thou wilt build him an house: therefore thy servant hath found in his heart to pray before thee.

In Context

24Let your name be established and magnified forever, saying, ‘The LORD of Armies is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel. The house of David your servant is established before you.’

26Now, LORD, you are God, and have promised this good thing to your servant.

Read all of 1 Chronicles 17

Cross References

1 Samuel 9:15Now the LORD had revealed to Samuel a day before Saul came, saying,

Ezekiel 36:37“‘The Lord GOD says: “For this, moreover, I will be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 17:17-27

David's Grateful Acknowledgment. ( b. c. 1042.) 16 And David the king came and sat before the Lord , and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto? 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 high degree, O Lord God. 18 What can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant. 19 O Lord ,… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study 1 Chronicles 17:25