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<span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have moved around in a tent and in a tabernacle. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel, did I say a word to any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, 'Why have you not built me a house of cedar?'"'</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Now therefore you shall tell my servant David this, 'Thus says Yahweh of Armies, "I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people, over Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as at the first, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. Moreover Yahweh tells you that Yahweh will make you a house. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>When your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who shall proceed out of your bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>but my loving kindness shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before you. Your throne shall be established forever."'" <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.</p> <a name="18" id="18"></a><p class="hdg">David's Prayer of Thanksgiving<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../1_chronicles/17.htm#16">1 Chronicles 17:16-27</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, "Who am I, Lord Yahweh, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh; but you have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come; and this after the way of men, Lord Yahweh! <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, Lord Yahweh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For your word's sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Therefore you are great, Yahweh God. For there is none like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make him a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeem to you out of Egypt, [from] the nations and their gods? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>You established for yourself your people Israel to be a people to you forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Now, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Let your name be magnified forever, saying, 'Yahweh of Armies is God over Israel; and the house of your servant David shall be established before you.' <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/7-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>For you, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, 'I will build you a house.' Therefore your servant has found in his heart to pray this prayer to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/7-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>"Now, O Lord Yahweh, you are God, and your words are truth, and you have promised this good thing to your servant. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/7-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Now therefore let it please you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Lord Yahweh, have spoken it. Let the house of your servant be blessed forever with your blessing."</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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