1 Chronicles 17:2
◄  1 Chronicles 17:2  ►
New International Version (©2011)
Nathan replied to David, "Whatever you have in mind, do it, for God is with you."

New Living Translation (©2007)
Nathan replied to David, "Do whatever you have in mind, for God is with you."

English Standard Version (©2001)
And Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then Nathan said to David, "Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God is with thee.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So Nathan told David, "Do all that is on your heart, for God is with you."

International Standard Version (©2012)
"Do everything you have in mind," Nathan replied to David, "because God is with you."

NET Bible (©2006)
Nathan said to David, "You should do whatever you have in mind, for God is with you."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Nathan told David, "Do everything you have in mind, because God is with you."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you.

American King James Version
Then Nathan said to David, Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you.

American Standard Version
And Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thy heart; for God is with thee.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Nathan said to David: Do all that is in thy heart: for God is with thee.

Darby Bible Translation
And Nathan said to David, Do all that is in thy heart; for God is with thee.

English Revised Version
And Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God is with thee.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then Nathan said to David, Do all that is in thy heart; for God is with thee.

World English Bible
Nathan said to David, "Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you."

Young's Literal Translation
and Nathan saith unto David, 'All that is in thy heart do, for God is with thee.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

17:1-27 David's purposes; God's gracious promises. - This chapter is the same as 2Sa 7. See what is there said upon it. It is very observable that what in Samuel is said to be, for thy word's sake, is here said to be, "for thy servant's sake," ver. 19. Jesus Christ is both the Word of God, Re 19:13, and the Servant of God, Isa 42:1; and it is for his sake, upon account of his mediation, that the promises are made good to all believers; it is in him, that they are yea and amen. For His sake it is done, for his sake it is made known; to him we owe all this greatness, from him we are to expect all these great things. They are the unsearchable riches of Christ, which, if by faith we see in themselves, and see in the Lord Jesus, we cannot but magnify as the only true greatness, and speak honourably of them. For this blessedness may we look amidst the trials of life, and when we feel the hand of death upon us; and seek it for our children after us.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 2. - This verse gives Nathan's response on the spur of the moment. And that it was not radically wrong from a prophet may be inferred from the stress afterwards laid upon the acceptableness to God of what had been in the heart of David to do. Even with God, silence would sometimes be understood by a prophet to be equivalent to assent.

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God's Covenant with David
1Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, See, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remains under curtains. 2Then Nathan said to David, Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you. 3And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying, …

1 Kings 8:17 "My father David had it in his heart to build a temple for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
1 Chronicles 17:1 After David was settled in his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, "Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under a tent."
1 Chronicles 17:3 But that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying:
1 Chronicles 28:2 King David rose to his feet and said: "Listen to me, my fellow Israelites, my people. I had it in my heart to build a house as a place of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, for the footstool of our God, and I made plans to build it.