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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies; |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thine heart; for the LORD is with thee. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came unto Nathan, saying, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel: |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he said, Who am I, O Lord GOD? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto? |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord GOD? |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy servant. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods? |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art become their God. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25And now, O LORD God, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, establish it for ever, and do as thou hast said. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God over Israel: and let the house of thy servant David be established before thee. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27For thou, O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28And now, O Lord GOD, thou art that God, and thy words be true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant: |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Therefore now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee: for thou, O Lord GOD, hast spoken it: and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever. |
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