2 Samuel 7

VIN(i) 1 When the king lived in his house, and the LORD had given him rest from all his enemies all around, 2 the king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I live in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within curtains. 3 Nathan replied to the king, "Go do everything you have in mind, because the LORD is with you." 4 And that night the Word of the LORD came to Nathan saying, 5 "Go and tell my servant David, 'Thus says the LORD: "Are you the one to build for me a house for my dwelling? 6 For I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought up the Israelites from Egypt until this day; rather, I was going about in a tent and in a tabernacle. 7 Wherever I moved among the Israelites, did I ever ask even one tribal leader of Israel whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, 'Why haven't you built me a cedar temple?' 8 "Say this to my servant David: 'This is what the LORD Almighty says: I took you from the pasture where you followed sheep so that you could be the leader of my people Israel. 9 I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth. 10 And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant it and they shall continue in one place and shall move no more, neither shall wicked people trouble them any more as they did at the beginning, 11 In the manner that I appointed judges over my people Israel, I will give you rest from all your enemies. And the LORD declares to you that the LORD will build a house for you. 12 When your days are full and you lie down with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring after you who will go out from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 It is he who shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever. 14 "'I will be his father. He will be my son. When he does wrong I will correct him just as parents correct children. 15 But my mercy I will not take away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I removed from before my face. 16 Your house and your kingdom shall endure forever before you; your throne shall be established forever." '" 17 Nathan spoke to David all these words, and according to all this vision. 18 Then King David went in and sat before the LORD. And he said, Who am I, O Sovereign LORD? And what is my house, that You have brought me here? 19 And yet this [is] little in Your eyes, Sovereign LORD, and You do speak also concerning the house of Your servant afar off; and this [is] the law of the Man, Sovereign LORD. 20 What more can David say to You? For You know Your servant, Sovereign LORD. 21 "For the sake of your Word and according to your will you have done this great thing. You have made it known to your servant! 22 Therefore you are great, my Sovereign LORD, for there is no one like you, and there is no god except you, in all that we have heard with our ears. 23 "And who is like your people, like Israel, the one nation on earth that God went out to redeem as a people for himself, to make a name for himself, and to carry out for them great and awe-inspiring accomplishments, driving out nations and their gods in front of your people, whom you redeemed to yourself from Egypt? 24 You have established your people Israel for yourself as a people forever, and you, O LORD, have become their God. 25 And now, O Lord God, raise up for ever the word that thou hast spoken, concerning thy servant and concerning his house: and do as thou hast spoken, 26 Your name shall be great forever, and they will say, 'the LORD Almighty is God over Israel'; and the house of your servant David shall be established before you. 27 For You, O LORD Almighty, God of Israel, have revealed to Your servant, saying, I will build you a house. Therefore Your servant has found in his heart to pray this prayer to You. 28 Now, O Sovereign LORD, You are God, and Your words are truth, and You have promised this good thing to Your servant. 29 Now therefore let it please you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue everlasting before you, for you, O Sovereign LORD, have spoken it. And with your blessing let the house of your servant be blessed forever.