1 Chronicles 17
17:1And it came to pass as David dwelt in his house, and David said to Nathan the prophet, Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, and the ark of the covenant of the lord is underneath hide coverings.
17:2And Nathan said to David, All in your soul do! for God is with you.
17:3And it came to pass in that night, and the word of God came to Nathan,
17:4You go, and say to David my servant! Thus said the lord, You shall not build for me a house for me to dwell in it.
17:5for I did not dwell in a house from the day which I led up Israel until this day; for I was in a tent for protection and inside the covering.
17:6In all the places in which I went with all Israel, did in speaking I say to any one tribe of Israel, to the ones whom I gave charge to tend my people, saying, Why did you not build for me a house of cedar?
17:7And now, thus you shall say to my servant David, Thus says the lord of the forces, I took you from out of the haven, from following the flocks, to be as one leading over my people Israel.
17:8And I was with you in all the places in which you went, and I utterly destroyed all your enemies from in front of you, and I made to you a name according to the name of the great ones, of the ones upon the earth.
17:9And I shall establish a place for my people Israel, and I will plant him, and he shall encamp by himself, and he shall not be disturbed any longer; and the son of iniquity shall not proceed to humble him as from the beginning.
17:10And from days which I arranged judges over my people Israel, and I humbled all your enemies, even I will increase you, and I will build to you a house, says the lord.
17:11And it will be whenever your days should be filled to go with your fathers, that I will raise up your seed after you, who will be from your belly, and I will prepare his kingdom.
17:12He shall build for me a house, and I shall re-erect his throne unto the eon.
17:13I will be to him as father, and he will be to me as son. And my mercy I will not remove from him, as I removed from the ones before you.
17:14And I will stand him in my house, and with his kingdom unto the eon. And his throne will be re-erected unto the eon.
17:15According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so spoke Nathan to David.
17:16And king David came and sat before the lord, and said, Who am I, O lord God, and what is my house, that you loved me unto the eon?
17:17And these things were diminished before you, O God; and you spoke about the house of your servant from a long time, and looked upon me as man's vision, and raised me up high, O lord God.
17:18How shall David proceed yet to you, to glorify you -- your servant? and you know your servant.
17:19O lord, on account of your servant, and according to your heart, you did all this greatness, to make known all the great things.
17:20O lord, there is none likened to you, and there is no God besides you, according to all as much as we heard with our ears.
17:21And there is no nation as your people Israel yet upon the earth, as God guided him for the ransoming a people to himself, to establish to himself a great and apparent name, to cast out nations from in front of your people of whom you ransomed out of Egypt.
17:22And you appointed your people Israel for yourself -- a people unto the eon. And you, O lord, became to them for God.
17:23And now, O lord, your word which you spoke to your servant, and concerning his house, let it be trusted unto the eon, and you do as you spoke!
17:24And let your name be trusted and be magnified unto the eon! saying, The lord almighty, the God of Israel, God to Israel; and the house of David your servant being erected before you.
17:25For you, O lord my God, uncovered the ear of your servant, to build him a house. Because of this your servant found need to pray before your face.
17:26And now, O lord, You are he -- God, and you spoke these good things concerning your servant.
17:27And now you began to bless the house of your servant, for it to be in the eon before you. For you, O lord, blessed; and it is blessed into the eon.