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          DASV: 1 Chronicles 17    

1 After David had lived awhile in his house, he said to Nathan the prophet, "Look, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under a tent."
2 Nathan replied to David, "Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you."

3 That same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
4 "Go, tell my servant David, 'This is what the LORD says, You are not to build me a house to dwell in.
5 for I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up Israel to this day, but have moved from one tent setup to another in a tabernacle tent.
6 Wherever I have moved with all Israel, did I ever speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people, asking, Why have you not built me a house of cedar?'
7 So now, tell my servant David, 'This is what the LORD of armies says, I took you from the pasture, from tending sheep, so that you would be ruler over my people Israel.
8 I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies before you. I will make your name, as famous as any of the great ones who have ever lived on the earth.
9 I will provide a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, so that they may live in their own place, and not be shuffled around any more. The wicked will not oppress them any more, as they have done in the past,
10 from the time when I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will subdue all your enemies. Furthermore, I tell you that the LORD himself will build you a house.
11 When your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your forefathers, I will raise up one of your descendants after you, who will be one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom.
12 He will build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.
13 I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will not take my loyal love away from him, as I took it from him who ruled before you.
14 but I will confirm him over my house and over my kingdom forever. His throne will be established forever.'"
15 Nathan told David all these words and the entire vision.

16 Then David the king went in, and sat before the LORD, and replied, "Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?
17 Even if this was a small thing in your eyes, O God; you have spoken about your servant's house well into the future, and have treated me as though I were a person of high rank, O LORD God.
18 What more can David say to you for the way in which you have honored your servant? For you know your servant.
19 O LORD, for your servant's sake, and according to your own heart, you have done this great thing and made known all these incredible things.
20 O LORD, there is no one like you, there is no other God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
21 Who is like your people Israel, one nation in the earth whom God went to redeem as a people for himself. You made a name for yourself by great and awesome deeds when you drove out nations before your people, whom you redeemed out of Egypt?
22 For you made your people Israel, your own people, forever; and you, O LORD, became their God.
23 Now, O LORD, let the word that you have promised concerning your servant, and concerning his dynastic house, be established forever. Do as you have promised.
24 Let your name be established and magnified forever, by saying, "The LORD of armies is God of Israel, is Israel's God; and the house of David your servant is established before you.
25 For you, O my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a dynastic house. Therefore your servant has found courage to pray before you.
26 Now, O LORD, you are God, and have promised this good thing to your servant.
27 Now it has pleased you to bless the dynastic house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you. For you, O LORD, have blessed it, and it will be blessed forever."

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