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David">a</a></span> spoke with the prophet Nathan. “Look, here I am living in this<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="17:1 Lit. the">b</a></span> cedar palace, but the ark of the LORD’s covenant remains surrounded by curtains!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Do everything you have in mind,”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="17:2 Lit. heart">c</a></span> Nathan replied to David, “because God is with you.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But later that same night, this message came to Nathan from God:</p> <p class="doubleindent margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“Go tell David, my servant, ‘This is what the Lord says:</p> <p class="reg marginbot">“‘“You won’t be building a house<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="17:4 Lit. house; and so throughout the chapter">d</a></span> for me to inhabit, will you? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>After all, I haven’t lived in a house from the day I brought out Israel until today. Instead, I’ve lived from tent to tent and from one place to another.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="17:5 The Heb. lacks to another">e</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Wherever I’ve moved within all of Israel, did I ever ask even one judge of Israel whom I commanded to shepherd my people, ‘Why haven’t you built me a cedar house?’”’</p> <p class="doubleindent"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“Now therefore this is what you are to tell my servant David: </p> <p class="doubleindent">‘This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: “I took you from the pasture myself—from tending sheep—to become Commander-in-Chief<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="17:7 Lit. Nagid; i.e. a senior officer entrusted with dual roles of operational oversight and management authority">f</a></span> over my people Israel.</p> <p class="doubleindent"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“‘“Furthermore, I have remained with you everywhere you have gone, annihilating all your enemies right in front of you. I will make your reputation<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="17:8 Lit. name">g</a></span> great, like the reputation<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="17:8 Lit. name">h</a></span> of the great ones who have lived on<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="17:8 The Heb. lacks have lived">i</a></span> earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I will establish a homeland<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="17:9 Lit. place">j</a></span> for my people Israel, planting them in a secure location where they will never be disturbed anymore. Wicked people<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="17:9 Lit. Children of wickedness">k</a></span> will not oppress them as happened in the past, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>during the time I had commanded judges to administer<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="17:10 Lit. judges over">l</a></span> my people Israel. I’ll also grant you deliverance from all your enemies.</p> <p class="doubleindent marginbot">“‘“I’m also announcing to you that the LORD also will himself build a house<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="17:10 i.e. a dynasty">m</a></span> for you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>It will come about that when your life<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="17:11 Lit. days">n</a></span> is complete and you go to join your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="17:11 Lit. seed; MT is sing.">o</a></span> after you, who is related to one of<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="17:11 Or is from">p</a></span> your sons, and I will fortify his kingdom. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He will build a temple dedicated to me, and I will make his throne last forever. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I will be a father to him and he will be a son to me. I will never remove my gracious love from him as I did from the one who preceded you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I will confirm him in my Temple and in my kingdom forever, and his throne will remain secure forever.”’”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Using precisely these words, Nathan communicated this complete oracle to David.</p> <p class="heading">David’s Prayer</p><p class="cross_ref">(<a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/2_samuel/7.htm">2 Samuel 7:18-29</a>)</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then King David went in, sat down in the presence of the LORD, and said:</p> <p class="doubleindent margintop">“Who am I, LORD God, and what is my household,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="17:16 Lit. house, and so throughout the chapter">q</a></span> since you have brought me to this? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/17-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Furthermore, this is a small thing to you, God, and yet you have spoken concerning your servant’s household for a great while to come, and you have seen in me the fulfillment<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="17:17 Lit. turning">r</a></span> of man’s purpose, LORD God.</p> <p class="doubleindent"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/17-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“What more can David say to you about how you are honoring your servant, and you surely know your servant. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/17-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>LORD, for the sake of your servant, and consistent with your heart, you have done all of these great things and are now making these<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="17:19 The Heb. lacks these">s</a></span> great things known.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/17-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“LORD, there is no one like you, and we have heard from no god other than you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/17-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>What other one nation on the earth is like your people Israel, God, which you have redeemed from slavery to become your own people, making a great name for yourself when you redeemed your people from Egypt. You did awesome miraculous deeds, driving out nations that stood in their way. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/17-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>You took<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="17:22 Lit. gave">t</a></span> your people Israel to be your very own people forever, and you, LORD, have become their God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/17-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>“And now, LORD, let what you have spoken concerning your servant and his household be done forever—and let it be done just as you’ve promised. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/17-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>May your name be made great and honored forever: The LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, is God for Israel, and may the family of David your servant stand before you forever.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/17-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>“Because of you, my God, I have been bold to pray to you, as you have told your servant that you will build him a dynasty. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/17-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And now, LORD, you are God, and you have promised all of these good things to your servant. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/17-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Furthermore, it has pleased you to bless the dynasty of your servant, so that it will continue in place forever in your presence, because when you, LORD, grant a blessing, it is an eternal blessing.”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 17:1 Lit. <i>David</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 17:1 Lit. <i>the</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 17:2 Lit. <i>heart</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 17:4 Lit. <i>house</i>; and so throughout the chapter<br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 17:5 The Heb. lacks <i>to another</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 17:7 Lit. <i>Nagid</i>; i.e. a senior officer entrusted with dual roles of operational oversight and management authority<br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 17:8 Lit. <i>name</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 17:8 Lit. <i>name</i><br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 17:8 The Heb. lacks <i>have lived</i><br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 17:9 Lit. <i>place</i><br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 17:9 Lit. <i>Children of wickedness</i><br /><span class="fnb">l</span> 17:10 Lit. <i>judges over</i><br /><span class="fnb">m</span> 17:10 i.e. a dynasty<br /><span class="fnb">n</span> 17:11 Lit. <i>days</i><br /><span class="fnb">o</span> 17:11 Lit. <i>seed</i>; MT is sing.<br /><span class="fnb">p</span> 17:11 Or <i>is from</i><br /><span class="fnb">q</span> 17:16 Lit. <i>house</i>, and so throughout the chapter<br /><span class="fnb">r</span> 17:17 Lit. <i>turning</i><br /><span class="fnb">s</span> 17:19 The Heb. lacks <i>these</i><br /><span class="fnb">t</span> 17:22 Lit. <i>gave</i><br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../1_chronicles/16.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Chronicles 16"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Chronicles 16" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_chronicles/18.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Chronicles 18"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Chronicles 18" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/1_chronicles/17-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>