1Chr 17
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And it came to pass, when David dwelt in his house, that David said to Nathan the
prophet, Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of YHWH
[dwells] under curtains.
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And Nathan said to David, Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you.
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And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
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Go and tell David my servant, Thus says YHWH, You shall not build me a house to dwell
in:
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for I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up Israel, to this day,
but have gone from tent to tent, and from [one] tabernacle [to another].
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In all places wherein I have walked with all Israel, spoke I a word with any of the
judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, Why have you
not built me a house of cedar?
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Now therefore thus shall you say to my servant David, Thus says YHWH of hosts, I took
you from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my
people Israel:
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and I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies
from before you; and I will make you a name, like to the name of the great ones that
are in the earth.
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And 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
waste them any more, as at the first,
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and [as] from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will
subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that YHWH will build you a house.
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And it shall come to pass, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with
your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who shall be of your sons; and
I will establish his kingdom.
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He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne for ever.
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I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my lovingkindness
away from him, as I took it from him whom was before you;
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but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom for ever; and his throne shall
be established for ever.
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According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak
to David.
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Then David the king went in, and sat before YHWH; and he said, Who am I, O YHWH God,
and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?
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And this was a small thing in your eyes, O God; but you have spoken of your servant`s
house for a great while to come, and have regarded me according to the estate of a
man of high degree, O YHWH God.
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What can David [say] yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant?
for you know your servant.
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O YHWH, for your servant`s sake, and according to your own heart, have you wrought
all this greatness, to make known all [these] great things.
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O YHWH, there is none like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to
all that we have heard with our ears.
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And what one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem
to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and terrible things, in driving
out nations from before your people, whom you redeem out of Egypt?
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For your people Israel did you make your own people for ever; and you, YHWH, became
their God.
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And now, O YHWH, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning
his house, be established for ever, and do as you have spoken.
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And let your name be established and magnified for ever, saying, YHWH of hosts is
the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and the house of David your servant is established
before you.
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For you, O my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a house:
therefore has your servant found [in his heart] to pray before you.
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And now, O YHWH, you are God, and have promised this good thing to your servant:
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and now it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue
for ever before you: for you, O YHWH, have blessed, and it is blessed for ever.