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2 Samuel 7 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
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</span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent and a tabernacle. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Wherever I have moved about among all the people of Israel, did I ever speak a word with any of the tribal leaders<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-8188a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Now therefore thus you shall say to my servant David: Thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> of hosts: I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep to be prince over my people Israel; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>and I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, so that they may live in their own place, and be disturbed no more; and evildoers shall afflict them no more, as formerly, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel; and I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> declares to you that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> will make you a house. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come forth from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. When he commits iniquity, I will punish him with a rod such as mortals use, with blows inflicted by human beings. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>But I will not take<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-8196b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> my steadfast love from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-8197c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> your throne shall be established forever. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>In accordance with all these words and with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">David’s Prayer</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Then King David went in and sat before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, and said, “Who am I, O Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">God</span>, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">God</span>; you have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come. May this be instruction for the people,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-8200d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> O Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">God</span>! </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>And what more can David say to you? For you know your servant, O Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">God</span>! </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>Because of your promise, and according to your own heart, you have wrought all this greatness, so that your servant may know it. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>Therefore you are great, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> God; for there is no one like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>Who is like your people, like Israel? Is there another<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-8204e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> nation on earth whose God went to redeem it as a people, and to make a name for himself, doing great and awesome things for them,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-8204f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> by driving out<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-8204g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote g">g</a>]</span> before his people nations and their gods?<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-8204h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote h">h</a>]</span> </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>And you established your people Israel for yourself to be your people forever; and you, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, became their God. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>And now, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> God, as for the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, confirm it forever; do as you have promised. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>Thus your name will be magnified forever in the saying, ‘The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> of hosts is God over Israel’; and the house of your servant David will be established before you. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>For you, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> of hosts, the God of Israel, have made this revelation to your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house’; therefore your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>And now, O Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">God</span>, you are God, and your words are true, and you have promised this good thing to your servant; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>now therefore may it please you to bless the house of your servant, so that it may continue forever before you; for you, O Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">God</span>, have spoken, and with your blessing shall the house of your servant be blessed forever.”</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Samuel 7:7">2 Samuel 7:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>any of the tribes</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Samuel 7:15">2 Samuel 7:15</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr Vg 1 Chr 17.13: Heb <i>shall not depart</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Samuel 7:16">2 Samuel 7:16</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Heb Mss: MT <i>before you</i>; Compare 2 Sam 7.26, 29</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Samuel 7:19">2 Samuel 7:19</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Samuel 7:23">2 Samuel 7:23</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk: Heb <i>one</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Samuel 7:23">2 Samuel 7:23</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>you</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Samuel 7:23">2 Samuel 7:23</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk 1 Chr 17.21: Heb <i>for your land</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Samuel 7:23">2 Samuel 7:23</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Heb <i>before your people, whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, nations and its gods</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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