| 1 | As David sat in his house, he said to Nathan the prophet, Behold, I dwell in a house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the Lord remains under tent curtains. |
| 2 | Then Nathan said to David, Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you. |
| 3 | And that same night the word of God came to Nathan, saying, |
| 4 | Go and tell David My servant, Thus says the Lord: You shall not build Me a house to dwell in, |
| 5 | For I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up Israel from Egypt until this day; but I have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another. |
| 6 | Wherever I have walked with all Israel, did I say a word to any of the judges of Israel whom I commanded to feed My people, saying, Why have you not built Me a house of cedar? |
| 7 | Now therefore, thus shall you say to My servant David, Thus says the Lord of hosts: I took you from the sheepfold, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over My people Israel. |
| 8 | And I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you, and I will make your name like the name of the great ones of the earth. |
| 9 | Also I will appoint a place for My people Israel and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place and be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the first, |
| 10 | Since the time that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel. Moreover, I will subdue all your enemies. Furthermore, I foretell to you that the Lord will build you a house (a blessed posterity). |
| 11 | And it shall come to pass that when your days are fulfilled to go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom. |
| 12 | He shall build Me a house, and I will establish his throne forever. |
| 13 | I will be his father, and he shall be My son; and I will not take My mercy
and
steadfast love away from him, as I took it from him [King Saul] who was before you. |
| 14 | But I will settle
[a]him (Him) in My house and in My kingdom forever; and his (His) throne shall be established forevermore. |
| 15 | According to all these words and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David. |
| 16 | And David the king went in and sat before the Lord and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house
and
family, that You have brought me up to this? |
| 17 | And yet this was a small thing in Your eyes, O God; for You have spoken of Your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O Lord God! |
| 18 | What more can David say to You for thus honoring Your servant? For You know Your servant. |
| 19 | O Lord, for Your servant’s sake and in accord with Your own heart, You have wrought all this greatness, to make known all these great things. |
| 20 | O Lord, there is none like You, nor is there any God beside You, according to all that our ears have heard. |
| 21 | And what nation on the earth is like Your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to Himself as a people, making Yourself a name by great and terrible things, by driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed out of Egypt? |
| 22 | You made Your people Israel Your own forever, and You, Lord, became their God. |
| 23 | Therefore now, Lord, let the word which You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house be established forever, and do as You have said. |
| 24 | Let it be established and let Your name [and the character that name denotes] be magnified forever, saying, The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, is Israel’s God; and the house of David Your servant will be established before You. |
| 25 | For You, O my God, have told Your servant that You will build for him a house (a blessed posterity); therefore Your servant has found courage
and
confidence to pray before You. |
| 26 | And now, Lord, You are God, and have promised this good thing to Your servant. |
| 27 | Therefore may it please You to bless the house (posterity) of Your servant, that it may continue before You forever; for what You bless, O Lord, is blessed forever. |
Cross references:
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1 Chronicles 17:12 : I Chron. 28:7.
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1 Chronicles 17:13 : Heb. 1:5, 6.
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1 Chronicles 17:14 : Isa. 9:7.
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