2 Samuel 7:20
New International Version
“What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, Sovereign LORD.

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

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

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

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

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

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

NASB 1995
“Again what more can David say to You? For You know Your servant, O Lord GOD!

NASB 1977
“And again what more can David say to Thee? For Thou knowest Thy servant, O Lord GOD!

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

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

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
What more can David say to You? You know Your servant, Lord GOD.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And what will your Servant David more say to you? You know your Servant, LORD JEHOVAH God!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And what shall David yet say to thee? and now thou knowest thy servant, O Lord, my Lord.

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

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"What more can I, David, say to you, Almighty LORD, since you know me so well!

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

International Standard Version
"What more can David say to you, and you surely know your servant, Lord GOD.

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

Literal Standard Version
And what does David add more to speak to You? And You, You have known Your servant, Lord YHWH.

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

New American Bible
What more can David say to you? You know your servant, Lord GOD!

NET Bible
What more can David say to you? You have given your servant special recognition, O LORD God!

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

New Heart English Bible
And what more can David add to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant? For you know your servant, LORD.

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

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

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

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
David's Prayer of Thanksgiving
19And as if this was a small thing in Your eyes, O Lord GOD, You have also spoken about the future of the house of Your servant. Is this Your custom with man, O Lord GOD? 20What more can David say to You? For You know Your servant, O Lord GOD. 21For the sake of Your word and according to Your own heart, You have accomplished this great thing and revealed it to Your servant.…

Cross References
John 21:17
Jesus asked a third time, "Simon son of John, do you love Me?" Peter was deeply hurt that Jesus had asked him a third time, "Do you love Me?" "Lord, You know all things," he replied. "You know I love You." Jesus said to him, "Feed My sheep.

1 Samuel 16:7
But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart."


Treasury of Scripture

And what can David say more to you? for you, Lord GOD, know your servant.

knowest

Genesis 18:19
For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

1 Samuel 16:7
But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

Psalm 139:1
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.

Jump to Previous
Add David Servant Sovereign Speak Thou
Jump to Next
Add David Servant Sovereign Speak Thou
2 Samuel 7
1. Nathan, first approving the purpose of David to build God a house
4. After by the word of God forbids him
12. God promises him benefits and blessings in his seed
18. David's prayer and thanksgiving














Verse 20. - Thou, Lord. God, knowest thy servant. The Hebrew throughout has Lord Jehovah, except in vers. 22, 25, where it has "Jehovah God," the title of Deity used in Genesis 2. The repeated use Of this covenant and personal name of God is very emphatic; and the appeal to Jehovah's knowledge of his heart reminds us of similar outpourings of David's consciousness of his sincere devotion to his Maker, as for instance in Psalm 17:3.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
What
וּמַה־ (ū·mah-)
Conjunctive waw | Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

more
יּוֹסִ֥יף (yō·w·sîp̄)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3254: To add, augment

can David
דָּוִ֛ד (dā·wiḏ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1732: David -- perhaps 'beloved one', a son of Jesse

say
לְדַבֵּ֣ר (lə·ḏab·bêr)
Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

to You?
אֵלֶ֑יךָ (’ê·le·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

For You
וְאַתָּ֛ה (wə·’at·tāh)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

know
יָדַ֥עְתָּ (yā·ḏa‘·tā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3045: To know

Your servant,
עַבְדְּךָ֖ (‘aḇ·də·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5650: Slave, servant

O Lord
אֲדֹנָ֥י (’ă·ḏō·nāy)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 136: The Lord

GOD.
יְהוִֽה׃ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3069: YHWH


Links
2 Samuel 7:20 NIV
2 Samuel 7:20 NLT
2 Samuel 7:20 ESV
2 Samuel 7:20 NASB
2 Samuel 7:20 KJV

2 Samuel 7:20 BibleApps.com
2 Samuel 7:20 Biblia Paralela
2 Samuel 7:20 Chinese Bible
2 Samuel 7:20 French Bible
2 Samuel 7:20 Catholic Bible

OT History: 2 Samuel 7:20 What can David say more to you? (2Sa iiSam 2 Sam ii sam)
2 Samuel 7:19
Top of Page
Top of Page