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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.
02 Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in
thine heart; for God is with thee.
03 And it came to pass the same night, that the
word of God came to Nathan, saying,
04 Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the
Lord, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell
in:
05 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.
06 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?
07 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:
08 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.
09 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
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.
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