2 Samuel 7:2-17 ▼

2 that the king said to Nathan the prophet, |See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within curtains.|

3 Nathan said to the king, |Go, do all that is in your heart; for the LORD is with you.|

4 It happened the same night, that the word of the LORD came to Nathan, saying,

5 |Go and tell my servant David, 'Thus says the LORD, |Shall you build me a house for me to dwell in?

6 For I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have moved around in a tent and in a tabernacle.

7 In all places in which I have walked throughout Israel, did I say a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, 'Why have you not built me a house of cedar?'|'

8 Now therefore you shall tell my servant David this, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, |I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel.

9 And I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you, and I will make for you a name like the name of the great ones of the earth.

10 I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as at the first,

11 and from the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. Moreover the LORD tells you that he will build you a house.

12 And it will come about when your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, that I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

13 He will build a house for my name, and I will establish his throne forever.

14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with a human rod, and with the stripes from human beings;

15 but my loving kindness shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.

16 And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me, and your throne shall be established forever.|'|

17 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.