| 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 remains under curtains. |
| 2 | Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in your 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 said the Lord in vision, You shall 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, spoke I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have you not built me an house of cedars? |
| 7 | Now therefore thus shall you say unto my servant David, Thus said the Lord of hosts, I took you from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that you shouldest be ruler over my people Israel: |
| 8 | And I have been with you whithersoever you have walked, and have cut off all your enemies from before thee, and have made you 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 your enemies. Furthermore I tell you that the Lord will build you an house. |
| 11 | And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that you 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 you have brought me hitherto? |
| 17 | And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O God; for you have also spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and have regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O Lord God. |
| 18 | What can David speak more to you for the honour of thy servant? for you knowest thy servant. |
| 19 | O Lord, for thy servant's sake, and according to your own heart, have you 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 you a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people whom you have redeemed out of Egypt? |
| 22 | For thy people Israel didst you make your own people for ever; and thou, Lord, becamest their God. |
| 23 | Therefore now, Lord, let the thing that you have spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as you have 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, have told thy servant that you will build him an house: therefore thy servant has found in his heart to pray before thee. |
| 26 | And now, Lord, you art God, and have promised this goodness unto thy servant: |
| 27 | Now therefore let it please you to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before you for ever: for you blessest, O Lord, and it shall be blessed for ever. |
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