1 It happened, when David lived in his house, that David said to
Nathan the prophet, Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the
covenant of Yahweh dwells under curtains. 2 Nathan said to David,
Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you. 3 It happened the same
night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying, 4 Go and tell David my
servant, Thus says Yahweh, You shall not build me a house to dwell in:
5 for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel,
to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tent
to another. 6 In all places in which I have walked with all
Israel, spoke I a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to
be shepherd of my people, saying, Why have you not built me a house of
cedar? 7 Now therefore thus shall you tell my servant David, Thus says
Yahweh of Hosts, I took you from the sheep pen, 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 have cut off all your enemies from before
you; and I will make you a name, like the name of the great ones who are in
the earth. 9 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 your enemies. Moreover I tell you that
Yahweh will build you a house. 11 It shall happen, when your days are
fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your
seed after you, who shall be of your 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
loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before you;
14 but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever; and his
throne shall be established forever. 15 According to all these words, and
according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to David. 16 Then David
the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, Who am I, Yahweh
God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far? 17 This was
a small thing in your eyes, God; but 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, Yahweh God. 18 What can David say yet
more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant? for you know
your servant. 19 Yahweh, for your servant’s sake, and according to
your own heart, have you worked all this greatness, to make known all
these great things. 20 Yahweh, there is none like you,
neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard
with our ears. 21 What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel,
whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great
and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you
redeem out of Egypt? 22 For your people Israel did you make your own
people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God. 23 Now,
Yahweh, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and
concerning his house, be established forever, and do as you have spoken.
24 Let your name be established and magnified forever, saying, Yahweh of
Hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and the house of David your
servant is established before you. 25 For you, my God, have revealed to
your servant that you will build him a house: therefore has your servant
found in his heart to pray before you. 26 Now, Yahweh, you
are God, and have promised this good thing to your servant: 27 and now it
has pleased you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue
forever before you: for you, Yahweh, have blessed, and it is blessed
forever.
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