What Does 1 Chronicles 17:19 Mean in the King James?
O LORD, for thy servant’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
God’s great acts are the way God’s own heart becomes knowable to you.
THE MEANING
God’s action toward you comes from God’s own heart and makes that heart knowable. What is done for your sake also reveals the one who acts; gift and self-disclosure move together.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that God’s great acts are distant displays of power, revealing nothing of God’s character, dissolves here: the act itself makes the divine heart known.
THE ROOT
לְהוֹדִיעַ
ləhôdîaʿ
GROWS FROM
ידע
to know, recognize, perceive
“making known” in this verse is ləhôdîaʿ. The verb is causative: God acts so that knowing happens. This root can name perception and personal acquaintance, so the act is disclosure that brings God’s heart into recognizable relation with you.
ALSO GROWS
daʿat: knowledge, perception
דַּעַת
The verb “make known” brings this knowledge into view through what God does.
môdaʿ: acquaintance, kinsman
מוֹדָע
This related word can name a personal connection, giving knowing the shape of recognition rather than detached information.
הַגְּדוּלָּה
haggedullah
GROWS FROM
גדל
to grow, become great, be enlarged
“greatness / great things” in this verse is haggedullah. The English phrases “greatness” and “great things” grow from one Hebrew root, גדל (gādal, to grow or become great). The verse binds what God does to what God reveals: the act and its disclosure carry one family resemblance.
ALSO GROWS
gādōl: great, large
גָּדוֹל
This form describes the great things made known, linking them to the greatness God does.
higdil: to make great, magnify
הִגְדִּיל
This causative branch shows greatness as something brought forth, echoing the movement from God’s action to what becomes known.
THE PATTERN
God’s acts disclose the heart from which they come.
And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.THE THREAD
He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.The phrase “made known” in this psalm comes from ידע (yādaʿ, to know or perceive), the same root behind “making known” here. Both verses place knowing inside God’s acts: what God does brings God’s ways within your perception.
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