1Chronicles:17

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ylt @1Chronicles:17:1 @And it cometh to pass as David sat in his house , that David saith unto Nathan the prophet , 'Lo , I am dwelling in a house of cedars , and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah [is ] under curtains ;' ylt @1Chronicles:17:2 @and Nathan saith unto David , 'All that [is ] in thy heart do , for God [is ] with thee .' ylt @1Chronicles:17:3 @And it cometh to pass on that night that a word of God is unto Nathan , saying , ylt @1Chronicles:17:4 @'Go , and thou hast said unto David My servant , Thus said Jehovah , Thou dost not build for Me the house to dwell in : ylt @1Chronicles:17:5 @for I have not dwelt in a house from the day that I brought up Israel till this day , and I am from tent unto tent : and from the tabernacle , ylt @1Chronicles:17:6 @whithersoever I have walked up and down among all Israel , a word spake I , with one of the judges of Israel , whom I commanded to feed My people , saying , Why have ye not built for Me a house of cedars ? ylt @1Chronicles:17:7 @'And now , thus dost thou say to My servant , to David , Thus said Jehovah of Hosts , I have taken thee from the habitation , from after the sheep , to be leader over My people Israel , ylt @1Chronicles:17:8 @and I am with thee whithersoever thou hast walked , and I cut off all thine enemies from thy presence , and have made for thee a name like the name of the great ones who [are ] in the earth . ylt @1Chronicles:17:9 @'And I have prepared a place for My people Israel , and planted it , and it hath dwelt in its place , and is not troubled any more , and the sons of perverseness add not to wear it out as at first , ylt @1Chronicles:17:10 @yea , even from the days that I appointed judges over My people Israel . 'And I have humbled all thine enemies , and I declare to thee that a house doth Jehovah build for thee , ylt @1Chronicles:17:11 @and it hath come to pass , when thy days have been fulfilled to go with thy fathers , that I have raised up thy seed after thee , who is of thy sons , and I have established his kingdom , ylt @1Chronicles:17:12 @he doth build for Me a house , and I have established his throne unto the age ; ylt @1Chronicles:17:13 @I am to him for a father , and he is to Me for a son , and My kindness I turn not aside from him as I turned it aside from him who was before thee , ylt @1Chronicles:17:14 @and I have established him in My house , and in My kingdom unto the age , and his throne is established unto the age .' ylt @1Chronicles:17:15 @According to all these words , and according to all this vision , so spake Nathan unto David . ylt @1Chronicles:17:16 @And David the king cometh in and sitteth before Jehovah , and saith , 'Who [am ] I , O Jehovah God , and what my house , that Thou hast brought me hitherto ? ylt @1Chronicles:17:17 @And this is small in Thine eyes , O God , and Thou speakest concerning the house of thy servant afar off , and hast seen me as a type of the man who is on high , O Jehovah God ! ylt @1Chronicles:17:18 @'What doth David add more unto Thee for the honour of Thy servant ; and Thou Thy servant hast known . ylt @1Chronicles:17:19 @O Jehovah , for Thy servant 's sake , and according to Thine own heart Thou hast done all this greatness , to make known all these great things . ylt @1Chronicles:17:20 @O Jehovah , there is none like Thee , and there is no god save Thee , according to all that we have heard with our ears . ylt @1Chronicles:17:21 @'And who [is ] as Thy people Israel , one nation in the earth whom God hath gone to ransom to Him for a people , to make for Thee a name great and fearful , to cast out from the presence of Thy people whom Thou hast ransomed out of Egypt -- nations ? ylt @1Chronicles:17:22 @Yea , Thou dost appoint Thy people Israel to Thee for a people unto the age , and Thou , O Jehovah , hast been to them for God . ylt @1Chronicles:17:23 @'And now , O Jehovah , the word that Thou hast spoken concerning Thy servant , and concerning his house , let be stedfast unto the age , and do as Thou hast spoken ; ylt @1Chronicles:17:24 @and let it be stedfast , and Thy name is great unto the age , saying , Jehovah of Hosts , God of Israel , is God to Israel , and the house of Thy servant David is established before Thee ; ylt @1Chronicles:17:25 @for Thou , O my God , Thou hast uncovered the ear of Thy servant -- to build to him a house , therefore hath Thy servant found to pray before Thee . ylt @1Chronicles:17:26 @'And now , Jehovah , Thou [art ] God Himself , and Thou speakest concerning Thy servant this goodness ; ylt @1Chronicles:17:27 @and now , Thou hast been pleased to bless the house of Thy servant , to be to the age before Thee ; for Thou , O Jehovah , hast blessed , and it is blessed to the age .'

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