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1 Chronicles

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Chapter 17

¹Now when David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under a tent.” ²And Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you.” ³But 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. ⁵For I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up Israel to this day, but I have gone from tent to tent and from dwelling to dwelling. ⁶In all places where I have moved with all Israel, did I speak a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?”’ ⁷Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people Israel, ⁸and I have been with you wherever you have gone and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a name, like the name of the great ones of the earth. ⁹And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more. And wicked men shall not waste them anymore, as formerly, ¹⁰from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover, I declare to you that the LORD will build you a house. ¹¹When your days are fulfilled to walk with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom. ¹²He shall build a house for me, and I will establish his throne forever. ¹³I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. I will not take my steadfast love from him, as I took it from him who was before you. ¹⁴but I will confirm him in my house and in my kingdom forever, and his throne shall be established forever.’” ¹⁵In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David. ¹⁶Then King David went in and sat before the LORD and said, “Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far? ¹⁷And this was a small thing in your eyes, O God. You have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come, and have seen me as a man of high rank, O LORD God! ¹⁸And what more can David say to you for the honor of your servant? For you know your servant. ¹⁹For your servant's sake, O LORD, and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness and have made known all these great things. ²⁰There is none like you, O LORD, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. ²¹And what one nation on earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his people, making for yourself a name of greatness and terror, by driving out nations before your people whom you redeemed from Egypt? ²²And you made your people Israel to be your own people forever, and you, O LORD, became their God. ²³And now, O LORD, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house be established forever, and do as you have spoken, ²⁴and your name will be established and magnified forever, saying, ‘The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, is Israel's God!’ And the house of your servant David will be established before you. ²⁵For you, my God, have opened the ear of your servant, that you will build him a house. Therefore your servant has found courage to pray before you. ²⁶And now, O LORD, you are God, and you have promised this good thing to your servant. ²⁷Now therefore may it please you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you. For you, O LORD, have blessed, and it is blessed forever.”