For your servant’s sake, O LORD, and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.
We have here David's solemn address to God, in answer to the gracious message he had now received from him. By faith he receives the promises, embraces them, and is persuaded of them, as the patriarchs, Heb, Ch1 11:13. How humbly does he here abase himself, and acknowledge his own unworthiness! How highly does he advance the name of God and admire his condescending grace and favour!
Commenting on 1 Chronicles 17:16-27
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. (p) Freely and according to the purpose of your will, without any deserving.
1Ch 17:17-20 Instead of the words האדם תּורת וזאת (2Sa 7:19), the Chronicle has המּעלה האדם כּתור וּראיתני, and sawest me (or, that thou sawest me) after the manner of men; תּור being a contraction of תּורה = תּורה. ראה, to see, may denote to visit (cf. 2Sa 13:5; 2Ki 8:29), or look upon in the sense of regard, respicere.
Commenting on 1 Chronicles 17:17-20