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 an house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD dwelleth under curtains.
² And 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 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 feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedar?
⁷ Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD 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 wentest, 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 the LORD will build thee an house.
¹¹ And it shall come to pass, when thy days be fulfilled that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will set 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 establish 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 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 the LORD; and he said, Who am I, O LORD 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 LORD God.
¹⁸ What can David say yet more unto thee concerning the honour which is done to thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.
¹⁹ O LORD, 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 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 unto himself for a people, to make thee a name by great and terrible things, in driving out nations from before thy people, which thou redeemedst out of Egypt?
²² For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.
²³ And now, O LORD, 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, The LORD 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 an house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray before thee.
²⁶ And now, O LORD, 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 LORD, hast blessed, and it is blessed for ever.