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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 Legacy Standard Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../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="../topmenuchap/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="../">LSB</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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 class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Legacy Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/nasb_/1_chronicles/17.htm" style="color:#0092f2" title="NASB">►► </a></td></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">The Ark of God Inhabits a Tent</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now it happened when David inhabited his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I inhabit a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh is under <i>tent</i> curtains.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>So Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Now it happened in the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“Go and say to David My servant, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “You shall not build Me a house to inhabit; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>for I have not inhabited a house since the day that I brought up Israel to this day, but I have been from tent to tent and from <i>one</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>dwelling place <i>to another</i>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Wherever I have gone about with all Israel, did I speak a word with <i>even</i> one of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd My people, saying, ‘Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?’”’ <p class="hdg">David’s House Will Be Established Forever</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>So now, thus shall you say to My servant David, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, “I Myself took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a name like the name of the great men who are on the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And I will appoint a place for My people Israel and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place and not be disturbed again; and the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>unrighteous will not waste them anymore as formerly, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>even from the day that I commanded judges <i>to be</i> over My people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. <p class="reg"> And I tell you that Yahweh will build a house for you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And it will be that when your days are fulfilled to go <i>to be</i> with your fathers, I will raise up <i>one of</i> your seed after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He shall build for Me a house, and I will establish his throne forever. <span class="reftext"><a href="/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; and I will not remove My lovingkindness from him, as I removed <i>it</i> from him who was before you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But I will cause him to stand in My house and in My kingdom forever, and his throne shall be established forever.”’” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>According to all these words and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David. <p class="hdg">David Magnifies Yahweh’s Name</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then David the king went in and sat before Yahweh and said, “Who am I, O Yahweh God, and what is my house that You have brought me this far? <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And this was a small thing in Your eyes, O God; but You have spoken of the house of Your slave concerning the distant future, and have regarded me according to the standard of a man of high degree, O Yahweh God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Again what more can David <i>say</i> to You concerning the glory <i>bestowed</i> on Your slave? You know Your slave. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>O Yahweh, for the sake of Your slave, and according to Your own heart, You have done all this greatness, to make known all these great things. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>O Yahweh, there is none like You, and there is no God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And what one nation in the earth is like Your people Israel, whom God went to redeem for Himself <i>as</i> a people, to make You a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed out of Egypt? <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Yet You gave Your people Israel <i>to be</i> Your own people forever, and You, O Yahweh, have become their God. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>“So now, O Yahweh, let the word that You have spoken concerning Your slave and concerning his house <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>endure forever, and do as You have spoken, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>that Your name <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>endure and be magnified forever, by saying, ‘Yahweh of hosts is the God of Israel, <i>even</i> a God to Israel; and the house of David Your <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>servant is established before You.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>For You, O my God, have revealed in the hearing of Your slave that You will build for him a house; therefore Your slave has found <i>courage</i> to pray before You. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/17-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>So now, O Yahweh, You are God, and You have <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>promised this good thing to Your slave. <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 slave, that it may be forever before You. For You, O Yahweh, have blessed, and it is blessed forever.”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">5</span> Or <i>tabernacle</i>, cf. 2 Sam 7:6<br><span class="fnverse">9</span> Lit <i>sons of wickedness</i><br><span class="fnverse">23</span> Or <i>be true</i><br><span class="fnverse">24</span> Or <i>be true</i><br><span class="fnverse">24</span> Or <i>slave</i>, cf. 17:23; see Preface, “The Terminology of Slave”<br><span class="fnverse">26</span> Lit <i>spoken</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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