2 Samuel 7
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God’s Covenant With David
1Ch 17:1–15
1Now when the king settled into his house and the Lord had given him rest from all of his enemies on all sides, 2#2Sa 5:11; 12:1the king said to Nathan the prophet, “I am dwelling in a cedar house, but the ark of God is sitting in a tent.”
3#1Ki 8:17–18; 1Ch 22:7Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart because the Lord is with you.”
4That night the word of the Lord came to Nathan:
5Go and say to My servant David: Thus says the Lord: Do you intend to build a house for Me in which I will dwell? 6#1Ki 8:16; Ex 40:18–19I have not dwelt in a house since the day I brought the sons of Israel from Egypt until this day. I have been moving about with a tent as My dwelling. 7#Lev 26:11–12; 2Sa 5:2Wherever I have moved with all the sons of Israel, have I ever spoken a word to anyone from the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd My people Israel, saying, “Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?”
8#2Sa 6:21; 1Sa 16:11–12Now therefore, you will say to My servant David: Thus says the Lord of Hosts: I took you from the pasture, from following after the sheep, to be ruler over My people Israel. 9#2Sa 5:10; 1Ch 17:8I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all of your enemies before you. I will make your name great, like the great ones across the land. 10#Ps 89:22–23; Isa 60:18Moreover, I will appoint a place for My people Israel. I will plant them, and they will dwell in that very place. They will be restless no longer, and the unjust will no longer oppress them, as in former times, 11#1Sa 12:9–11; 2Sa 7:1ever since the day in which I appointed judges over My people Israel. I will give you rest from all of your enemies.
The Lord declares to you that He will instead bring about a house for you. 12#1Ki 8:20; 2:1; Dt 31:16When your days are complete and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up after you an offspring from your body, and I will establish his rule. 13#1Ki 8:19; 5:5He will build a house for My name, and I will establish his royal throne forever. 14#Heb 1:5; 1Ch 17:13I will be a father to him, and he will be a son to Me. When he goes astray, I will correct him with the rod of men and afflictions of the sons of men. 15#1Sa 15:23; 15:28My commitment will not abandon him, as I removed it from Saul, whom I deposed before you. 16#2Sa 7:13; Ps 89:36–37Your house and dominion will endure before Me forever, and your throne will be established by the Lord forever.
17So Nathan spoke to David in accordance with all of these words and the entirety of this vision.
The Prayer of David
1Ch 17:16–27
18#Ex 3:11; 1Sa 18:18Then King David went in and sat before the Lord. He said,
“Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house that You have brought me this far? 19#1Ch 17:17; Isa 55:8–9Yet this was comparatively insignificant in Your sight, Lord God, for You have also spoken about Your servant’s house into the distant future. Is this Your manner with man, Lord God?
20#1Sa 16:7; Jn 21:17“What more can David say to You? You know Your servant, Lord God. 21Because of Your word, according to Your will, You have done all of this greatness to inform Your servant.
22#Ex 15:11; Dt 3:24“Therefore You are great, Lord God. There is none like You, and there is no God except You, according to everything that we have heard with our ears. 23#Dt 9:26; 10:21And who is like Your people, like Israel—a single nation in the land, whom God went to redeem as a people for Himself, making a name for Himself by doing great and awesome things for Your land, before Your people whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods. 24#Dt 26:18; Ge 17:7You established Your people Israel as Your own people forever, and You, Lord, became their God.
25“Now, Lord God, confirm forever the word that You spoke regarding Your servant and his house and do as You have spoken. 26#1Ch 17:23–24; Ps 72:18–19May Your name be magnified forever by saying, ‘The Lord of Hosts is God over Israel,’ and may the house of Your servant David be established before You.
27“For You, O Lord of Hosts, God of Israel, have revealed a word to Your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house.’ Therefore, Your servant has found the courage to pray this prayer to You. 28#Jn 17:17Now, Lord God, You are God, and Your words are true. You have spoken this good message to Your servant. 29#Nu 6:24–26; 2Sa 22:51Now, be resolved and bless Your servant’s dynastic house, so that it may stand before You forever. You, Lord God, have spoken, and with Your blessing, the house of Your servant will be blessed forever.”
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2 Samuel 7
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1And it cometh to pass, when the king sat in his house, and Jehovah hath given rest to him round about, from all his enemies,
2that the king saith unto Nathan the prophet, ‘See, I pray thee, I am dwelling in a house of cedars, and the ark of God is dwelling in the midst of the curtain.’
3And Nathan saith unto the king, ‘All that [is] in thine heart — go, do, for Jehovah [is] with thee.’
4And it cometh to pass in that night, that the word of Jehovah is unto Nathan, saying,
5‘Go, and thou hast said unto My servant, unto David, Thus said Jehovah, Dost thou build for Me a house for My dwelling in?
6for I have not dwelt in a house even from the day of My bringing up the sons of Israel out of Egypt, even unto this day, and am walking up and down in a tent and in a tabernacle.
7During all [the time] that I have walked up and down among all the sons of Israel, a word have I spoken with one of the tribes of Israel which I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, ‘Why have ye not built to Me a house of cedars?
8and now, thus dost thou say to My servant, to David: ‘Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, I have taken thee from the comely place, from after the flock, to be leader over My people, over Israel;
9and I am with thee whithersoever thou hast gone, and I cut off all thine enemies from thy presence, and have made for thee a great name, as the name of the great ones who [are] in the earth,
10and I have appointed a place for My people, for Israel, and have planted it, and it hath tabernacled in its place, and it is not troubled any more, and the sons of perverseness do not add to afflict it any more, as in the beginning,
11even from the day that I appointed judges over My people Israel; and I have given rest to thee from all thine enemies, and Jehovah hath declared to thee that Jehovah doth make for thee a house.
12‘When thy days are full, and thou hast lain with thy fathers, then I have raised up thy seed after thee which goeth out from thy bowels, and have established his kingdom;
13He doth build a house for My Name, and I have established the throne of his kingdom unto the age.
14I am to him for a father, and he is to Me for a son; whom in his dealings perversely I have even reproved with a rod of men, and with strokes of the sons of Adam,
15and My kindness doth not turn aside from him, as I turned it aside from Saul, whom I turned aside from before thee,
16and stedfast [is] thy house and thy kingdom unto the age before thee, thy throne is established unto the age.’
17According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so spake Nathan unto David.
18And king David cometh in and sitteth before Jehovah, and saith, ‘Who [am] I, Lord Jehovah? and what my house, that Thou hast brought me hitherto?
19And yet this [is] little in Thine eyes, Lord Jehovah, and Thou dost speak also concerning the house of Thy servant afar off; and this [is] the law of the Man, Lord Jehovah.
20And what doth David add more to speak unto Thee? and Thou, Thou hast known Thy servant, Lord Jehovah.
21Because of Thy word, and according to Thy heart, Thou hast done all this greatness, to cause Thy servant to know [it].
22Therefore Thou hast been great, Jehovah God, for there is none like Thee, and there is no God save Thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
23‘And who [is] as Thy people, as Israel — one nation in the earth, whom God hath gone to redeem to Him for a people, and to make for Him a name — and to do for you the greatness — even fearful things for Thy land, at the presence of Thy people, whom Thou hast redeemed to Thee out of Egypt — [among the] nations and their gods?
24Yea, Thou dost establish to Thee Thy people Israel, to Thee for a people unto the age, and Thou, Jehovah, hast been to them for God.
25‘And now, Jehovah God, the word which Thou hast spoken concerning Thy servant, and concerning his house, establish unto the age, and do as Thou hast spoken;
26And Thy Name is great unto the age, saying, Jehovah of Hosts [is] God over Israel, and the house of Thy servant David is established before Thee,
27For Thou, Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Thou hast uncovered the ear of Thy servant, saying, A house I build for thee, therefore hath Thy servant found his heart to pray unto Thee this prayer;
28And now, Lord Jehovah, Thou [art] God Himself, and Thy words are truth, and Thou speakest unto Thy servant this goodness,
29And now, begin and bless the house of Thy servant, to be unto the age before Thee, for Thou, Lord Jehovah, hast spoken, and by Thy blessing is the house of Thy servant blessed — to the age.’
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