1Chronicles:17

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* And it came to pass , when David dwelt in his house , that David said to Nathan the prophet , Look , I dwell in a house of cedar , but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh [dwells ] under curtains . * And Nathan said to David , Do all that is in your heart ; for God is with you . * And it came to pass the same night , that the word of God came to Nathan , saying , * Go and tell David my slave , Thus says Yahweh , You will not build me a house to dwell in : * for I haven 't dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up Israel , to this day , but have gone from tent to tent , and from [one ] tabernacle [to another ]. * In all places in which I have walked with all Israel , did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel , whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people , saying , Why haven 't you (note :){+}(:note ) built me a house of cedar ? * Now therefore thus you will say to my slave David , Thus says Yahweh of hosts , I took you from the sheepcote , from following the sheep , that you should be leader over my people Israel : * and I have been with you wherever you have gone , and have cut off all your enemies from before you ; and I will make you a name , like the name of the great ones who are in the earth . * And I will appoint a place for my people Israel , and will plant them , that they may stay in their own place , and be moved no more ; neither will the sons of wickedness waste them anymore , as at the first , * and [as ] from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel ; and I will subdue all your enemies . Moreover I tell you that Yahweh will build you a house . * And it will come to pass , when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers , that I will set up your seed after you , who will be of your sons ; and I will establish his kingdom . * He will build me a house , and I will establish his throne forever . * I will be his father , and he will be my son : and I will not take my loving-kindness away from him , as I took it from him who was before you ; * but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever ; and his throne will be established forever . * According to all these words , and according to all this vision , so Nathan spoke to David . * Then David the king went in , and sat before Yahweh ; and he said , Who am I , O Yahweh God , and what is my house , that you have brought me thus far ? * And this was a small thing in your eyes , O God ; but you have spoken of your slave 's house for a great while to come , and you see me according to the rank of man placed high , O Yahweh God . * What can David [say ] yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your slave ? For you know your slave . * O Yahweh , for your slave 's sake , and according to your own heart , you have wrought all this greatness , to make known all [these ] great things . * O Yahweh , there is none like you , neither is there any God besides you , according to all that we have heard with our ears . * And what other nation in the earth is like your people Israel , whom God went to redeem to himself for a people , to make yourself a name by great and awesome things , in driving out nations from before your people , whom you redeemed out of Egypt ? * For you made your people Israel your own people forever ; and you , Yahweh , became their God . * And now , O Yahweh , let the word that you have spoken concerning your slave , and concerning his house , be established forever , and do as you have spoken . * And let your name be established and magnified forever , saying , Yahweh of hosts is the God of Israel , even a God to Israel : and the house of David your slave is established before you . * For you , O my God , have revealed to your slave that you will build him a house : therefore your slave has found [in his heart ] to pray before you . * And now , O Yahweh , you are God , and have promised this good thing to your slave : * and now it has pleased you to bless the house of your slave , that it may continue forever before you : for you , O Yahweh , have blessed , and it is blessed forever .

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