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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1After David had settled into 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.” |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2And Nathan replied to David, “Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you.” |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3But that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4“Go and tell My servant David that this is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build Me a house in which to dwell. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought Israel up out of Egypt until this day, but I have moved from tent to tent and dwelling to dwelling. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6In all My journeys with all the Israelites, have I ever asked any of the leaders I appointed to shepherd My people, ‘Why haven’t you built Me a house of cedar?’ |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler over My people Israel. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make for you a name like the greatest in the land. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10and have done since the day I appointed judges over My people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover, I declare to you that the LORD will build a house for you. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11And when your days are fulfilled and you go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12He will build a house for Me, and I will establish his throne forever. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13I will be his Father, and he will be My son. And I will never remove My loving devotion from him as I removed it from your predecessor. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14But I will set him over My house and My kingdom forever, and his throne will be established forever.” |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15So Nathan relayed to David all the words of this entire vision. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Then King David went in, sat before the LORD, and said, “Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my house, that You have brought me this far? |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17And as if this was a small thing in Your eyes, O God, You have spoken about the future of the house of Your servant and have regarded me as a man of great distinction, O LORD God. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18What more can David say to You for so honoring Your servant? For You know Your servant, |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19O LORD. For the sake of Your servant and according to Your own heart, You have accomplished this great thing and revealed all Your greatness. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20O LORD, there is none like You, and there is no God but You, according to everything we have heard with our own ears. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself? You made a name for Yourself through great and awesome wonders by driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed from Egypt. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22For You have made Your people Israel Your very own forever, and You, O LORD, have become their God. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23And now, O LORD, let the word You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house be established forever. Do as You have promised, |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24so that Your name will be established and magnified forever when it is said, ‘The LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, is God over Israel.’ And may the house of Your servant David be established before You. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25For You, my God, have revealed to Your servant that You will build a house for him. Therefore Your servant has found the courage to pray before You. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26And now, O LORD, You are God! And You have promised this goodness to Your servant. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27So now You have been pleased to bless the house of Your servant, that it may continue forever before You. For You, O LORD, have blessed it, and it will be blessed forever.” |
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