2 Samuel Chapter 7

2 Samuel Chapter 7
1 Afterward when the king sat in his
house and the Lord had given him rest
round about from all his enemies,
2 The king said unto Nathan the prophet,
Behold, now I dwell in an house of
cedar trees, and the ark of God
remaineth within the curtains.
3 Then Nathan said unto the king, Go,
and do all that is in thine heart: for the
Lord is with thee.
4 And the same night the word of the
Lord came unto Nathan, saying, 5 Go
and tell my servant David, Thus saith the
Lord, Shalt thou build me an house for
my dwelling?
6 For I have dwelt in no house since the
time that I brought the children of Israel
out of Egypt unto this day, but have
walked in a tent and tabernacle. 7 In all
the places wherein I have walked with
all the children of Israel, spake I one
word with any of the tribes of Israel
when I commanded the judges to feed
my people Israel? Or said I, Why build
ye not me an house of cedar trees?
8 Now therefore so say unto my servant
David, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I
took thee from the sheepcote following
the sheep, that thou mightest be ruler
over my people, over Israel.
9 And I was with thee wheresoever thou
hast walked, and have destroyed all
thine enemies out of thy sight, and have
made thee a great name, like unto the
name of the great men that are in the
earth.
10 (Also I will appoint a place for my
people Israel, and will plant it, that they
may dwell in a place of their own, and
move no more, neither shall wicked
people trouble them any more as before
time,
11 And since the time that I set judges
over my people of Israel) and I will give
thee rest from all thine enemies: also the
Lord telleth thee, that he will make thee
an house.
12 And when thy days be fulfilled, thou
shalt sleep with thy fathers, and I will
set up thy seed after thee, which shall
proceed out of thy body, and will
stablish his kingdom.
13 He shall build an house for my name,
and I will stablish the throne of his
kingdom forever.
14 I will be his father, and he shall be
my son: and if he sin, I will chasten him
with the rod of men, and with the
plagues of the children of men. 15 But
my mercy shall not depart away from
him, as I took it from Saul whom I have
put away before thee.
16 And thine house shall be stablished
and thy kingdom forever before thee,
even thy throne shall be stablished
forever.
17 According to all these words, and
according to all this vision, Nathan
spake thus unto David.
18 Then king David went in, and sat
before the Lord, and said, Who am I, O
Lord God, and what is mine house, that
thou hast brought me hitherto?
19 And this was yet a small thing in thy
sight, O Lord God, therefore thou hast
spoken also of thy servant's house for a
great while: but doth this appertain to
man, O Lord God?
20 And what can David say more unto
thee? For thou, Lord God, knowest thy
servant.
21 For thy word's sake, and according to
thine own heart hast thou done all these
great things, to make them known unto
thy servant.
22 Wherefore thou art great, O Lord
God: for there is none like thee, neither
is there any God besides thee, according
to all that we have heard with our ears.
23 And what one people in the earth is
like thy people, like Israel? Whose God
went and redeemed them to himself, that
they might be his people, and that he
might make him a name, and do for you
great things, and terrible for thy land, O
Lord, even for thy people, whom thou
redeemest to thee out of Egypt, from the
nations, and their gods?
24 For thou hast ordained thy people
Israel to be thy people forever: and thou
Lord art become their God.
25 Now therefore, O Lord God, confirm
forever the word that thou hast spoken
concerning thy servant and his house,
and do as thou hast said. 26 And let thy
name be magnified forever by them that
shall say, The Lord of hosts is the God
over Israel: and let the house of thy
servant David be stablished before thee.
27 For thou, O Lord of hosts, God of
Israel, hast revealed unto thy servant,
saying, I will build thee an house:
therefore hath thy servant been bold to
pray this prayer unto thee.
28 Therefore now, O Lord God, ( for
thou art God, and thy words be true, and
thou hast told this goodness unto thy
servant)
29 Therefore now let it please thee to
bless the house of thy servant, that it may
continue forever before thee: for thou, O
Lord God, hast spoken it: and let the
house of thy servant be blessed forever,
with thy blessing.