1 Chronicles 17
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1 Chronicles 17
1¶ Now it came to pass, as David dwelt in his house, that David said to Nathan, the prophet, Behold, I dwell in a house of cedars, and the ark of the covenant of the Lord under curtains.
2Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thy heart for God is with thee.
3And it came to pass the same night that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
4Go and tell David my slave, Thus hath the Lord said, Thou shalt not build me a house to dwell in,
5for I have not dwelt in a 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.
6Wherever I have walked with all Israel, did I speak a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me a house of cedars?
7Now, therefore, thus shalt thou say unto my slave David, Thus hath the Lord of the hosts said, I took thee from the sheepfold, from following the sheep that thou should be ruler over my people Israel;
8and I have been with thee wherever thou hast walked and have cut off all thy enemies from before thee and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.
9Likewise I have ordained a place for my people Israel and have planted him that he dwell by himself and no longer be moved; neither shall the sons of iniquity waste them any more, as before,
10since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I have humbled all thy enemies and announce unto thee that the Lord will build thee a house.
11And it shall come to pass, when thy days are fulfilled to 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.
12He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne eternally.
13I 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;
14but I will confirm him in my house and in my kingdom for ever, and his throne shall be established for evermore.
15According 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 my house, that thou hast brought me here?
17And yet this was a small thing in thy eyes, O God, for thou hast also spoken of thy slave’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.
18What more can David add asking thee to glorify thy slave? For thou knowest thy slave.
19O Lord, for thy slave’s sake and according to thy own heart, thou hast done all this greatness, in making known all thy great things.
20O LORD, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
21And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to ransom to be his own people, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out the Gentiles from before thy people, whom thou didst redeem out of Egypt?
22For thy people Israel didst thou make thy own people for ever, and thou, Lord, didst become their God.
23Therefore, now, Lord, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy slave and concerning his house be established for ever and do as thou hast said.
24Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever, that it may be said, The Lord of the hosts, God of Israel, is God unto Israel; and let the house of David thy slave be established before thee.
25For thou, O my God, hast told thy slave that thou wilt build him a house; therefore, thy slave has found in his heart to pray before thee.
26And now, Lord, thou art God and hast promised this goodness unto thy slave;
27now it has pleased thee to bless the house of thy slave, that it may be before thee for ever; for thou, O Lord, hast blessed it, and it shall be blessed for ever.
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The Jubilee Bible 2000 (JUB) by Ransom Press International