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1 Chronicles 17
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- Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that
David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the
ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains.
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- Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine
heart; for God is with thee.
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- And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God
came to Nathan, saying,
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- Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou
shalt not build me an house to dwell in:
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- For I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I
brought up Israel unto this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from one
tabernacle to another.
- 6
- Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a
word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people,
saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?
- 7
- Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David,
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from
following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:
- 8
- And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast
walked, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made
thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.
- 9
- Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and
will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no
more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the
beginning,
- 10
- And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my
people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell
thee that the LORD will build thee an house.
- 11
- And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that
thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee,
which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
- 12
- He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his
throne for ever.
- 13
- I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will
not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee:
- 14
- But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom
for ever: and his throne shall be established for evermore.
- 15
- According to all these words, and according to all this
vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
- 16
- And David the king came and sat before the LORD, and
said, Who am I, O LORD God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me
hitherto?
- 17
- And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for
thou hast also spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and
hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O LORD God.
- 18
- What can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy
servant? for thou knowest thy servant.
- 19
- 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.
- 20
- O LORD, there is none like thee, neither is there any
God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
- 21
- And what one nation in the earth is like thy people
Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make thee a name of
greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people whom
thou hast redeemed out of Egypt?
- 22
- For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people
for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.
- 23
- Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast spoken
concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and
do as thou hast said.
- 24
- Let it even be established, that thy name may be
magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God
to Israel: and let the house of David thy servant be established before thee.
- 25
- For thou, O my God, hast told thy servant that thou wilt
build him an house: therefore thy servant hath found in his heart to pray
before thee.
- 26
- And now, LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this
goodness unto thy servant:
- 27
- Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of
thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever: for thou blessest, O LORD,
and it shall be blessed for ever.
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