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         <div class="label">17</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God&#8217;s Promise to David</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CH.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After David was settled in his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, &#8220;Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of the covenant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is under a tent.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CH.17.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CH.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Nathan replied to David, &#8220;Whatever you have in mind, do it, for God is with you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CH.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CH.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CH.17.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CH.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go and tell my servant David, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: You are not the one to build me a house to dwell in. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CH.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought Israel up out of Egypt to this day. I have moved from one tent site to another, from one dwelling place to another. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CH.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Wherever I have moved with all the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their leaders</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:6 </span><span class="ft">Traditionally </span><span class="fqa">judges</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 10</span></span></span><span class="content"> whom I commanded to shepherd my people, &#8220;Why have you not built me a house of cedar?&#8221;&#8198;&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CH.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CH.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now then, tell my servant David, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty says: I took you from the pasture, from tending the flock, and appointed you ruler over my people Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CH.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make your name like the names of the greatest men on earth. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CH.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And I will provide a place for my people Israel and will plant them so that they can have a home of their own and no longer be disturbed. Wicked people will not oppress them anymore, as they did at the beginning </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CH.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and have done ever since the time I appointed leaders over my people Israel. I will also subdue all your enemies.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CH.17.10"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;I declare to you that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will build a house for you: </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CH.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When your days are over and you go to be with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CH.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He is the one who will build a house for me, and I will establish his throne forever. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CH.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will never take my love away from him, as I took it away from your predecessor. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CH.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I will set him over my house and my kingdom forever; his throne will be established forever.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CH.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CH.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Nathan reported to David all the words of this entire revelation.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David&#8217;s Prayer</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CH.17.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CH.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then King David went in and sat before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and he said:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CH.17.16"><span class="content">&#8220;Who am I, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far? </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CH.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And as if this were not enough in your sight, my God, you have spoken about the future of the house of your servant. You, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God, have looked on me as though I were the most exalted of men.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CH.17.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1CH.17.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;What more can David say to you for honoring your servant? For you know your servant, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CH.17.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. For the sake of your servant and according to your will, you have done this great thing and made known all these great promises.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CH.17.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1CH.17.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;There is no one like you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1CH.17.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">And who is like your people Israel&#8212;the one nation on earth whose God went out to redeem a people for himself, and to make a name for yourself, and to perform great and awesome wonders by driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeemed from Egypt? </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1CH.17.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">You made your people Israel your very own forever, and you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, have become their God.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1CH.17.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1CH.17.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;And now, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, let the promise you have made concerning your servant and his house be established forever. Do as you promised, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1CH.17.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">so that it will be established and that your name will be great forever. Then people will say, &#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, the God over Israel, is Israel&#8217;s God!&#8217; And the house of your servant David will be established before you.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1CH.17.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1CH.17.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;You, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build a house for him. So your servant has found courage to pray to you. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1CH.17.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">You, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, are God! You have promised these good things to your servant. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1CH.17.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Now you have been pleased to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever in your sight; for you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, have blessed it, and it will be blessed forever.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">23</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 23</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is my shepherd, I lack nothing.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.23.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He makes me lie down in green pastures,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.23.2"><span class="content">he leads me beside quiet waters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.23.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">he refreshes my soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.23.3"><span class="content">He guides me along the right paths</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.23.3"><span class="content">for his name&#8217;s sake.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.23.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Even though I walk</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="content">through the darkest valley,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the valley of the shadow of death</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="content">I will fear no evil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="content">for you are with me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="content">your rod and your staff,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="content">they comfort me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You prepare a table before me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.23.5"><span class="content">in the presence of my enemies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.23.5"><span class="content">You anoint my head with oil;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.23.5"><span class="content">my cup overflows.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.23.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Surely your goodness and love will follow me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.23.6"><span class="content">all the days of my life,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.23.6"><span class="content">and I will dwell in the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.23.6"><span class="content">forever.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">96</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 96</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.96.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Sing to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> a new song;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.96.1"><span class="content">sing to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, all the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.96.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.96.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Sing to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, praise his name;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.96.2"><span class="content">proclaim his salvation day after day.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.96.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.96.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Declare his glory among the nations,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.96.3"><span class="content">his marvelous deeds among all peoples.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.96.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.96.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For great is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and most worthy of praise;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.96.4"><span class="content">he is to be feared above all gods.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.96.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.96.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For all the gods of the nations are idols,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.96.5"><span class="content">but the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> made the heavens.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.96.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.96.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Splendor and majesty are before him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.96.6"><span class="content">strength and glory are in his sanctuary.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.96.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.96.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Ascribe to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, all you families of nations,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.96.7"><span class="content">ascribe to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> glory and strength.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.96.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.96.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Ascribe to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> the glory due his name;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.96.8"><span class="content">bring an offering and come into his courts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.96.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.96.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Worship the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in the splendor of his</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">96:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa"><span class="nd">Lord</span> with the splendor of</span></span></span><span class="content"> holiness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.96.9"><span class="content">tremble before him, all the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.96.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.96.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Say among the nations, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> reigns.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.96.10"><span class="content">The world is firmly established, it cannot be moved;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.96.10"><span class="content">he will judge the peoples with equity.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.96.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.96.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.96.11"><span class="content">let the sea resound, and all that is in it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.96.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.96.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.96.12"><span class="content">let all the trees of the forest sing for joy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.96.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.96.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Let all creation rejoice before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, for he comes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.96.13"><span class="content">he comes to judge the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.96.13"><span class="content">He will judge the world in righteousness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.96.13"><span class="content">and the peoples in his faithfulness.</span></span></div>
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