1 Chronicles 17

¹1 Chronicles 17:1. After David had settled into his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under a tent.”²1 Chronicles 17:2. And Nathan replied to David, “Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you.”³1 Chronicles 17:3. But that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying,⁴1 Chronicles 17:4. “Go and tell My servant David that this is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build Me a house in which to dwell.⁵1 Chronicles 17:5. For I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought Israel up out of Egypt until this day, but I have moved from tent to tent and dwelling to dwelling.⁶1 Chronicles 17:6. In all My journeys with all the Israelites, have I ever asked any of the leaders I appointed to shepherd My people, ‘Why haven’t you built Me a house of cedar?’⁷1 Chronicles 17:7. Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler over My people Israel.⁸1 Chronicles 17:8. I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make for you a name like that of the greatest in the land.⁹1 Chronicles 17:9. And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning¹⁰1 Chronicles 17:10. and have done since the day I appointed judges over My people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover, I declare to you that the LORD will build a house for you.¹¹1 Chronicles 17:11. And when your days are fulfilled and you go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom.¹²1 Chronicles 17:12. He will build a house for Me, and I will establish his throne forever.¹³1 Chronicles 17:13. I will be his Father, and he will be My son. And I will never remove My loving devotion from him as I removed it from your predecessor.¹⁴1 Chronicles 17:14. But I will set him over My house and My kingdom forever, and his throne will be established forever.”¹⁵1 Chronicles 17:15. So Nathan relayed to David all the words of this entire revelation.

¹⁶1 Chronicles 17:16. Then King David went in, sat before the LORD, and said, “Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my house, that You have brought me this far?¹⁷1 Chronicles 17:17. And as if this was a small thing in Your eyes, O God, You have spoken about the future of the house of Your servant and have regarded me as a man of great distinction, O LORD God.¹⁸1 Chronicles 17:18. What more can David say to You for honoring Your servant? For You know Your servant,¹⁹1 Chronicles 17:19. O LORD. For the sake of Your servant and according to Your own heart, You have accomplished this great thing and made known all these great promises.²⁰1 Chronicles 17:20. O LORD, there is none like You, and there is no God but You, according to everything we have heard with our own ears.²¹1 Chronicles 17:21. And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself? You made a name for Yourself through great and awesome wonders by driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed from Egypt.²²1 Chronicles 17:22. For You have made Your people Israel Your very own forever, and You, O LORD, have become their God.²³1 Chronicles 17:23. And now, O LORD, let the word You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house be established forever. Do as You have promised,²⁴1 Chronicles 17:24. so that Your name will be established and magnified forever when it is said, ‘The LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, is God over Israel.’ And may the house of Your servant David be established before You.²⁵1 Chronicles 17:25. For You, my God, have revealed to Your servant that You will build a house for him. Therefore Your servant has found the courage to pray before You.²⁶1 Chronicles 17:26. And now, O LORD, You are God! And You have promised this goodness to Your servant.²⁷1 Chronicles 17:27. So now You have been pleased to bless the house of Your servant, that it may continue forever before You. For You, O LORD, have blessed it, and it will be blessed forever.”