1 Chronicles Chapter 17
| 1 | 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. | 2 | Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine 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 the LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in: | 5 | 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. |