1 Chronicles 17
1 And it came to pass, when David dwelt in his house, that David said to Nathan
the prophet, Lo, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of
Jehovah [dwelleth] under curtains.
2 And Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thy heart; for God is with thee.
3 And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan,
saying,
4 Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith Jehovah, Thou shalt 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, unto
this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from [one] tabernacle [to
another] .
6 In all places wherein I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word with any
of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying,
Why have ye not built me a house of cedar?
7 Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith Jehovah of
hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, that thou
shouldest be prince over my people Israel:
8 and I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast gone, and have cut off all
thine enemies from before thee; and I will make thee a name, like unto the name
of the great ones that are in the earth.
9 And 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 and [as] from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel;
and I will subdue all thine enemies. Moreover I tell thee that Jehovah will
build thee a house.
11 And it shall come to pass, when thy days are fulfilled that thou must go to
be with thy fathers, that I will set up thy seed after thee, who shall be of thy
sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
12 He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne for ever.
13 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my
lovingkindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee;
14 but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom for ever; and his throne
shall be established for ever.
15 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan
speak unto David.
16 Then David the king went in, and sat before Jehovah; and he said, Who am I, O
Jehovah God, and what is my house, that thou hast brought me thus far?
17 And this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; but thou hast 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 Jehovah God.
18 What can David [say] yet more unto thee concerning the honor which is done to
thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.
19 O Jehovah, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast
thou wrought all this greatness, to make known all [these] great things.
20 O Jehovah, there is none like thee, neither is there any God besides 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 unto himself for a people, to make thee a name by great and terrible
things, in driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou redeemest out
of Egypt?
22 For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou,
Jehovah, becamest their God.
23 And now, O Jehovah, let the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy
servant, and concerning his house, be established for ever, and do as thou hast
spoken.
24 And let thy name be established and magnified for ever, saying, Jehovah of
hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and the house of David thy
servant is established before thee.
25 For thou, O my God, hast revealed to thy servant that thou wilt build him a
house: therefore hath thy servant found [in his heart] to pray before thee.
26 And now, O Jehovah, thou art God, and hast promised this good thing unto thy
servant:
27 and now it hath pleased thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may
continue for ever before thee: for thou, O Jehovah, hast blessed, and it is
blessed for ever.