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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. |
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2 | Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine
heart; for God is with thee. |
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3 | And it came to pass the same night,
that the word of God came to Nathan, saying, |
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4 | 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. |
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| 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? |
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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: |
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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. |
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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 honor 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? |
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| 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.
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| 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. |
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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. |
