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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1When David had settled into his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, "Look, I am living in a palace made from cedar, while the ark of the LORD's covenant is under a tent." |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Nathan said to David, "You should do whatever you have in mind, for God is with you." |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3That night God told Nathan the prophet, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"Go, tell my servant David: 'This is what the LORD says: "You must not build me a house in which to live. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For I have not lived in a house from the time I brought Israel up from Egypt to the present day. I have lived in a tent that has been in various places. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Wherever I moved throughout Israel, I did not say to any of the leaders whom I appointed to care for my people Israel, 'Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?'"' |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"So now, say this to my servant David: 'This is what the LORD who commands armies says: "I took you from the pasture and from your work as a shepherd to make you a leader of my people Israel. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8I was with you wherever you went and I defeated all your enemies before you. Now I will make you as famous as the great men of the earth. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9I will establish a place for my people Israel and settle them there; they will live there and not be disturbed anymore. Violent men will not oppress them again, as they did in the beginning |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10and during the time when I appointed judges to lead my people Israel. I will subdue all your enemies. "'"I declare to you that the LORD will build a dynastic house for you! |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11When the time comes for you to die, I will raise up your descendant, one of your own sons, to succeed you, and I will establish his kingdom. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12He will build me a house, and I will make his dynasty permanent. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13I will become his father and he will become my son. I will never withhold my loyal love from him, as I withheld it from the one who ruled before you. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I will put him in permanent charge of my house and my kingdom; his dynasty will be permanent."'" |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Nathan told David all these words that were revealed to him. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16David went in, sat before the LORD, and said: "Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my family, that you should have brought me to this point? |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17And you did not stop there, O God! You have also spoken about the future of your servant's family. You have revealed to me what men long to know, O LORD God. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18What more can David say to you? You have honored your servant; you have given your servant special recognition. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19O LORD, for the sake of your servant and according to your will, you have done this great thing in order to reveal your greatness. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20O LORD, there is none like you; there is no God besides you! What we heard is true! |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21And who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation in the earth? Their God went to claim a nation for himself! You made a name for yourself by doing great and awesome deeds when you drove out nations before your people whom you had delivered from the Egyptian empire and its gods. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22You made Israel your very own nation for all time. You, O LORD, became their God. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23So now, O LORD, may the promise you made about your servant and his family become a permanent reality! Do as you promised, |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24so it may become a reality and you may gain lasting fame, as people say, 'The LORD who commands armies is the God of Israel.' David's dynasty will 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 dynasty for him. That is why your servant has had the courage to pray to you. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Now, O LORD, you are the true God; you have made this good promise to your servant. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Now you are willing to bless your servant's dynasty so that it may stand permanently before you, for you, O LORD, have blessed it and it will be blessed from now on into the future." |
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