1 Chronicles 17
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1After David had settled down to live in his palace, he spoke with the prophet Nathan. "Look, here I am living in this cedar palace, but the ark of the LORD's covenant remains surrounded by curtains!"1Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains.
2"Do everything you have in mind," Nathan replied to David, "because God is with you."2Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God is with thee.
3But later that same night, this message came to Nathan from God:3And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
4"Go tell David, my servant, 'This is what the Lord says: "'"You won't be building a house for me to inhabit, will you? 4Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:
5After all, I haven't lived in a house from the day I brought out Israel until today. Instead, I've lived from tent to tent and from one place to another.5For I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought up Israel unto this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another.
6Wherever I've moved within all of Israel, did I ever ask even one judge of Israel whom I commanded to shepherd my people, 'Why haven't you built me a cedar house?'"'6Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?
7"Now therefore this is what you are to tell my servant David: 'This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "I took you from the pasture myself—from tending sheep—to become Commander-in-Chief over my people Israel.7Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:
8"'"Furthermore, I have remained with you everywhere you have gone, annihilating all your enemies right in front of you. I will make your reputation great, like the reputation of the great ones who have lived on earth. 8And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.
9I will establish a homeland for my people Israel, planting them in a secure location where they will never be disturbed anymore. Wicked people will not oppress them as happened in the past, 9Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,
10during the time I had commanded judges to administer my people Israel. I'll also grant you deliverance from all your enemies. "'"I'm also announcing to you that the LORD also will himself build a house for you. 10And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that the LORD will build thee an house.
11It will come about that when your life is complete and you go to join your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring after you, who is related to one of your sons, and I will fortify his kingdom. 11And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
12He will build a temple dedicated to me, and I will make his throne last forever. 12He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever.
13I will be a father to him and he will be a son to me. I will never remove my gracious love from him as I did from the one who preceded you. 13I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee:
14I will confirm him in my Temple and in my kingdom forever, and his throne will remain secure forever."'"14But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be established for evermore.
15Using precisely these words, Nathan communicated this complete oracle to David.15According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
16Then King David went in, sat down in the presence of the LORD, and said: "Who am I, LORD God, and what is my household, since you have brought me to this? 16And David the king came and sat before the LORD, and said, Who am I, O LORD God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?
17Furthermore, this is a small thing to you, God, and yet you have spoken concerning your servant's household for a great while to come, and you have seen in me the fulfillment of man's purpose, LORD God.17And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast also spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O LORD God.
18"What more can David say to you about how you are honoring your servant, and you surely know your servant. 18What can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.
19LORD, for the sake of your servant, and consistent with your heart, you have done all of these great things and are now making these great things known.19O LORD, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.
20"LORD, there is no one like you, and we have heard from no god other than you. 20O LORD, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
21What other one nation on the earth is like your people Israel, God, which you have redeemed from slavery to become your own people, making a great name for yourself when you redeemed your people from Egypt. You did awesome miraculous deeds, driving out nations that stood in their way. 21And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt?
22You took your people Israel to be your very own people forever, and you, LORD, have become their God.22For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.
23"And now, LORD, let what you have spoken concerning your servant and his household be done forever—and let it be done just as you've promised. 23Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as thou hast said.
24May your name be made great and honored forever: The LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, is God for Israel, and may the family of David your servant stand before you forever.24Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and let the house of David thy servant be established before thee.
25"Because of you, my God, I have been bold to pray to you, as you have told your servant that you will build him a dynasty. 25For thou, O my God, hast told thy servant that thou wilt build him an house: therefore thy servant hath found in his heart to pray before thee.
26And now, LORD, you are God, and you have promised all of these good things to your servant. 26And now, LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:
27Furthermore, it has pleased you to bless the dynasty of your servant, so that it will continue in place forever in your presence, because when you, LORD, grant a blessing, it is an eternal blessing."27Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever: for thou blessest, O LORD, and it shall be blessed for ever.
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