2 Samuel 7:20

Bible in Basic English

What more may David say to you? for you have knowledge of your servant, O Lord God.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
What more can David say to you? You know your servant, Lord God.

Hebrew Names Version
What can David say more to you? for you know your servant, Lord GOD.

King James Version
And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord God , knowest thy servant.

Lexham English Bible
What more can David say to you? You know your servant, my lord Yahweh.

English Standard Version
And what more can David say to you? For you know your servant, O Lord God !

New Century Version
"What more can I say to you, Lord God , since you know me, your servant, so well!

New English Translation
What more can David say to you? You have given your servant special recognition, O Lord God!

Amplified Bible
"What more can David say to You? For You know (acknowledge, choose) Your servant, O Lord GOD.

New American Standard Bible
"Again what more can David say to You? For You know Your servant, Lord GOD!

Geneva Bible (1587)
And what can Dauid say more vnto thee? for thou, Lord God, knowest thy seruant.

Legacy Standard Bible
And again what more can David say to You? And You know Your slave, O Lord Yahweh!

Contemporary English Version
I am your servant, and you know my thoughts, so there is nothing more that I need to say.

Complete Jewish Bible
what more can David say to you? For you know your servant intimately, Adonai Elohim .

Darby Translation
And what can David say more to thee? for thou, Lord Jehovah, knowest thy servant.

Easy-to-Read Version
How can I continue talking to you? Lord God , you know that I am only a servant.

George Lamsa Translation
And what more can thy servant David say to thee? For thou knowest thy servant, O LORD God.

Good News Translation
What more can I say to you! You know me, your servant.

Literal Translation
And what more can David say to You? And You know Your servant, O Lord Jehovah.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And what shall Dauid speake vnto the? thou knowest thy seruaunt O LORDE God,

American Standard Version
And what can David say more unto thee? for thou knowest thy servant, O Lord Jehovah.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And what can Dauid say more vnto thee? for thou Lorde God knowest thy seruaunt.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And what can David say more unto Thee? for Thou knowest Thy servant, O Lord GOD.

King James Version (1611)
And what can Dauid say more vnto thee? for thou, Lord God, knowest thy seruant.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And what shall David yet say to thee? and now thou knowest thy servant, O Lord, my Lord.

English Revised Version
And what can David say more unto thee? for thou knowest thy servant, O Lord GOD.

Berean Standard Bible
What more can David say to You? For You know Your servant, O Lord GOD.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
what therfor may Dauid adde yit, that he speke to thee? For thou, Lord God, knowist thi seruaunt; thou hast do alle these grete thingis,

Young's Literal Translation
And what doth David add more to speak unto Thee? and Thou, Thou hast known Thy servant, Lord Jehovah.

Update Bible Version
And what more can David say to you? for you know your slave, O Lord Yahweh.

Webster's Bible Translation
And what can David say more to thee? for thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy servant.

World English Bible
What can David say more to you? for you know your servant, Lord Yahweh.

New King James Version
Now what more can David say to You? For You, Lord GOD, know Your servant.

New Living Translation
"What more can I say to you? You know what your servant is really like, Sovereign Lord .

New Life Bible
What more can David say to You? For You know Your servant, O Lord God.

New Revised Standard
And what more can David say to you? For you know your servant, O Lord God !

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
What more, then, can David yet further speak unto thee, - seeing that, thou thyself knowest thy servant, O My Lord Yahweh?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And what can David say more unto thee? for thou knowest thy servant, O Lord God:

Revised Standard Version
And what more can David say to thee? For thou knowest thy servant, O Lord GOD!

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Again what more can David say to You? For You know Your servant, O Lord GOD!

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ Then David the king went in and took his seat before the Lord, and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, that you have been my guide till now? ¹⁹ And this was only a small thing to you, O Lord God; but your words have even been about the far-off future of your servant's family, O Lord God! ²⁰ What more may David say to you? for you have knowledge of your servant, O Lord God. ²¹ Because of your word and from your heart, you have done all this great work, and let your servant see it. ²² Truly you are great, O Lord God: there is no one like you and no other God but you, as is clear from everything which has come to our ears. ²³ And what other nation in the earth, like your people Israel, did a god go out to take for himself, to be his people, and to make a name for himself, and to do great and strange things for them, driving out a nation and its gods from before his people? ²⁴ But you took and made strong for yourself your people Israel, to be your people for ever; and you, Lord, became their God. ²⁵ And now, O Lord God, may the word which you have said about your servant and about his family, be made certain for ever, and may you do as you have said! ²⁶ And let your name be made great for ever, and let men say, The Lord of armies is God over Israel: and let the family of David your servant be made strong before you! ²⁷ For you, O Lord of armies, the God of Israel, have clearly said to your servant, I will make you the head of a family of kings: and so it has come into your servant's heart to make this prayer to you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

knowest: Genesis 18:19, 1 Samuel 16:7, Psalms 139:1, John 2:25, John 21:17, Hebrews 4:13, Revelation 2:23

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 17:18 - the honour Psalms 108:7 - I will rejoice John 21:15 - thou knowest

Cross-References

Psalms 104:6
Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains;

Jeremiah 3:23
Truly, the hills, and the noise of an army on the mountains, are a false hope: truly, in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And what can David say more unto thee,.... In a way of self-abasement, or in thankfulness for such wonderful favours, or in prayer for more and other mercies; he wants words, as if he should say, to express his sense of his own nothingness and unworthiness, and to praise the Lord for all his benefits; and so large are the grants and promises made, that there is no room for him to ask for more:

for thou, Lord God, knowest thy servant; what a sense he has of his own meanness and vileness, what gratitude his heart is filled with, and what his wants and necessities are, which God only can supply, and does abundantly, even more than he is able to ask or think. The Targum is,

"and thou hast performed the petition of thy servant, O Lord God.''

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 7:20. What can David say more — How can I express my endless obligation to thee?