2 Samuel 7
7
The Lord's Message to David
(1 Chronicles 17.1-15)
1King David moved into his new palace, and the Lord let his kingdom be at peace. 2Then one day, as David was talking with Nathan the prophet, David said, “Look around! I live in a palace made of cedar, but the sacred chest has to stay in a tent.”
3Nathan replied, “The Lord is with you, so do what you want!”
4That night, the Lord told Nathan 5to go to David and give him this message:
David, you are my servant, so listen to what I say. Why should you build a temple for me? 6I didn't live in a temple when I brought my people out of Egypt, and I don't live in one now. A tent has always been my home wherever I have gone with them. 7I chose leaders and told them to be like shepherds for my people Israel. But did I ever say anything to even one of them about building a cedar temple for me?
8 # Ps 151.4. David, this is what I, the Lord All-Powerful, say to you. I brought you in from the fields where you took care of sheep, and I made you the leader of my people. 9Wherever you went, I helped you and destroyed your enemies right in front of your eyes. I have made you one of the most famous people in the world.
10I have given my people Israel a land of their own where they can live in peace, and they won't have to tremble with fear any more. Evil nations won't bother them, as they did 11when I let judges rule my people. And I have kept your enemies from attacking you.
Now I promise that you and your descendants will be kings. 12#Ps 89.3,4; 132.11; Jn 7.42; Ac 2.30. I'll choose one of your sons to be king when you reach the end of your life and are buried in the tomb of your ancestors. I'll make him a strong ruler, 13and no one will be able to take his kingdom away from him. He will be the one to build a temple for me. 14#Ps 89.26,27; 2 Co 6.18; He 1.5. I will be his father, and he will be my son.
When he does wrong, I'll see that he is corrected, just as children are corrected by their parents. 15But I will never put an end to my agreement with him, as I put an end to my agreement with Saul, who was king before you. 16#Ps 89.36,37. I will make sure that one of your descendants will always be king.
17Nathan told David exactly what he had heard in the vision.
David Gives Thanks to the Lord
(1 Chronicles 17.16-27)
18David went into the tent he had set up for the sacred chest. Then he sat there and prayed:
Lord All-Powerful, my family and I don't deserve what you have already done for us, 19and yet you have promised to do even more. Is this the way you usually treat people?#7.19 Is this … people: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text. 20I am your servant, and you know my thoughts, so there is nothing more that I need to say. 21You have done this wonderful thing, and you have let me know about it, because you wanted to keep your promise.
22 Lord All-Powerful, you are greater than all others. No one is like you, and you alone are God. Everything we have heard about you is true. 23#Dt 4.32-34. And there is no other nation on earth like Israel, the nation you rescued from slavery in Egypt to be your own. You became famous by using great and wonderful miracles to force other nations and their gods out of your land, so your people could live here.#7.23 You … here: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text. 24You have chosen Israel to be your people forever, and you have become their God.
25And now, Lord God, please do what you have promised me and my descendants. 26Then you will be famous forever, and everyone will say, “The Lord God All-Powerful rules Israel, and David's descendants are his chosen kings.” 27After all, you really are Israel's God, the Lord All-Powerful. You've told me that you will let my descendants be kings. That's why I have the courage to pray to you like this, even though I am only your servant.
28 Lord All-Powerful, you are God. You have promised me some very good things, and you can be trusted to do what you promise. 29Please bless my descendants and let them always be your chosen kings. You have already promised, and I'm sure that you will bless my family forever.
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II Samuel 7
7
God’s Covenant with David
1Now it came to pass #1 Sam. 15:35; Is. 22:14when the king was dwelling in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from all his enemies all around, 2that the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in #1 Chr. 17:1–27a house of cedar, #2 Sam. 5:11but the ark of God dwells inside tent #Acts 7:46curtains.”
3Then Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your #Ex. 26:1heart, for the Lord is with you.”
4But it happened that night that the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying, 5“Go and tell My servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord: #1 Kin. 8:17, 18; 1 Chr. 22:7“Would you build a house for Me to dwell in? 6For I have not dwelt in a house #1 Kin. 5:3, 4; 8:19; 1 Chr. 22:8since the time that I brought the children of Israel up from Egypt, even to this day, but have moved about in #Josh. 18:1; 1 Kin. 8:16a tent and in a tabernacle. 7Wherever I have #Ex. 40:18, 34moved about with all the children of Israel, have I ever spoken a word to anyone from the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded #Lev. 26:11, 12to shepherd My people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?’ ” ’ 8Now therefore, thus shall you say to My servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: #2 Sam. 5:2; (Acts 20:28)“I took you from the sheepfold, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people, over Israel. 9And #1 Sam. 16:11, 12; Ps. 78:70, 71I have been with you wherever you have gone, #1 Sam. 18:14; 2 Sam. 5:10and have cut off all your enemies from before you, and have made you a great name, like the name of the great men who are on the earth. 10Moreover I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and will #1 Sam. 31:6plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own and move no more; #Ex. 15:17; Ps. 44:2; 80:8; Jer. 24:6nor shall the sons of wickedness oppress them anymore, as previously, 11#Ps. 89:22, 23; Is. 60:18since the time that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel, and have caused you to rest from all your enemies. Also the Lord tells you #Judg. 2:14–16that He will make you a house.
12#Ex. 1:21; 1 Sam. 25:28; 2 Sam. 7:27“When your days are fulfilled and you #1 Kin. 2:1rest with your fathers, #Deut. 31:16; Acts 13:36I will set up your seed after you, who will come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. 13#1 Kin. 8:20; Ps. 132:11; Matt. 1:6; Luke 3:31He shall build a house for My name, and I will #1 Kin. 5:5; 8:19; 2 Chr. 6:2establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 14#2 Sam. 7:16; (Is. 9:7; 49:8)I will be his Father, and he shall be #(Heb. 1:5)My son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men. 15But My mercy shall not depart from him, #(Ps. 2:7; 89:26, 27, 30); Matt. 3:17as I took it from Saul, whom I removed from before you. 16And #1 Sam. 15:23, 28; 16:14your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you. Your throne shall be established forever.” ’ ”
17According to all these words and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.
David’s Thanksgiving to God
18Then King David went in and sat before the Lord; and he said: #2 Sam. 7:13; Ps. 89:36, 37; Matt. 25:31; John 12:34“Who am I, O Lord God? And what is my house, that You have brought me this far? 19And yet this was a small thing in Your sight, O Lord God; and You have also spoken of Your servant’s house for a great while to come. #Gen. 32:10; Ex. 3:11; 1 Sam. 18:18Is this the manner of man, O Lord God? 20Now what more can David say to You? For You, Lord God, #(Is. 55:8, 9)know Your servant. 21For Your word’s sake, and according to Your own heart, You have done all these great things, to make Your servant know them. 22Therefore #(1 Sam. 16:7); Ps. 139:1; John 21:17You are great, O Lord God. For #Deut. 10:17; 1 Chr. 16:25; 2 Chr. 2:5; Ps. 86:10; Jer. 10:6there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our #Ex. 15:11; Deut. 3:24; 4:35; 32:39ears. 23And who is like Your people, like Israel, #Ex. 10:2; Ps. 44:1the one nation on the earth whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people, to make for Himself a name—and to do for Yourself great and awesome deeds for Your land—before #Ps. 147:20Your people whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt, the nations, and their gods? 24For #Deut. 9:26; 33:29You have made Your people Israel Your very own people forever; #Gen. 17:7, 8; Ex. 6:7; (Deut. 26:18)and You, Lord, have become their God.
25“Now, O Lord God, the word which You have spoken concerning Your servant and concerning his house, establish it forever and do as You have said. 26So let Your name be magnified forever, saying, ‘The Lord of hosts is the God over Israel.’ And let the house of Your servant David be established before You. 27For You, O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, have revealed this to Your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house.’ Therefore Your servant has found it in his heart to pray this prayer to You.
28“And now, O Lord God, You are God, and #Ps. 48:14Your words are true, and You have promised this goodness to Your servant. 29Now therefore, let it please You to bless the house of Your servant, that it may continue before You forever; for You, O Lord God, have spoken it, and with Your blessing let the house of Your servant be blessed #Ex. 34:6; Josh. 21:45; John 17:17forever.”
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