1 Chronicles 17:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

A small thing

Isaiah 49:6

Thou hast

1 Chronicles 17:11

Ephesians 3:20

Hast regarded

Philippians 2:8

Bible References

A small thing

Now therefore thus shall you say unto my servant David, Thus says the LORD of hosts, I took you from the sheepfold, even from following the sheep, that you should be ruler over my people Israel:

And this was yet a small thing in your sight, O Lord GOD; but you have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord GOD?

And I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto you more things.

And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.

And he said, It is too small a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved ones of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the Gentiles, that you may be my salvation unto the ends of the earth.

Thou hast

And it shall come to pass, when your days are ended that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will raise up your descendant after you, who shall be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

Hast regarded

And I have been with you wherever you have walked, and have cut off all your enemies from before you, and have made you a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.

And I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches, and honor: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto you all your days.

He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:

Then you spoke in a vision to your holy one, and said, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.