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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>1 Chronicles 17</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_chronicles/17.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmc//1_chronicles/17-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="/1_chronicles/">1 Chronicles</a> > 1 Chronicles 17</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_chronicles/16.htm" title="1 Chronicles 16">◄</a> 1 Chronicles 17 <a href="../1_chronicles/18.htm" title="1 Chronicles 18">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/1_chronicles/17.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/1_chronicles/17.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/1_chronicles/17.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/1_chronicles/17.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/1_chronicles/17.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/1_chronicles/17.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/1_chronicles/17.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">God’s Covenant with David<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_samuel/7.htm">2 Samuel 7:1–17</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>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.” <A name="3"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And Nathan replied to David, “Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you.” <A name="4"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying, <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“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. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought Israel up out of Egypt<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> until this day, but I have moved from tent to tent and dwelling to dwelling. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>In all My journeys with all the Israelites, have I ever asked any of the leaders<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> I appointed to shepherd My people, ‘Why haven’t you built Me a house of cedar?’ <A name="8"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>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. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>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 the greatest in the land. <A name="10"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>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 beginning <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and have done since the day I appointed judges over My people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. <p class="reg"> Moreover, I declare to you that the LORD will build a house for you. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>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. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He will build a house for Me, and I will establish his throne forever. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>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. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But I will set him over My house and My kingdom forever, and his throne will be established forever.” <A name="16"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So Nathan relayed to David all the words of this entire vision. <A name="17"></a><p class="hdg">David’s Prayer of Thanksgiving<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_samuel/7.htm#18">2 Samuel 7:18–29</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>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? <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>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,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> O LORD God. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>What more can David say to You for so honoring Your servant? For You know Your servant, <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>O LORD.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> For the sake of Your servant and according to Your own heart, You have accomplished this great thing and revealed all Your greatness. <A name="21"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>O LORD, there is none like You, and there is no God but You, according to everything we have heard with our own ears. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>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. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For You have made Your people Israel Your very own forever, and You, O LORD, have become their God. <A name="24"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And now, O LORD, let the word You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house be established forever. Do as You have promised, <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>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. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>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. <A name="27"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And now, O LORD, You are God! And You have promised this goodness to Your servant. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>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.”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <i>Out of Egypt</i><span class="thin"> </span> is implied, but not included in the Hebrew; see <a href="../2_samuel/7.htm#6">2 Samuel 7:6</a>.<br><span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Or <i>judges</i><span class="thin"> </span>; see verse 10.<br><span class="fnverse">17</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Or <i>and have shown me future generations</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">19</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> See <a href="../2_samuel/7.htm#20">2 Samuel 7:20</a>; many translators <i><span class="fnv">18</span>...For You know Your servant. <span class="fnv">19</span>O LORD,</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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