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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>2 Samuel 7 ESV</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/2_samuel/7.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/2_samuel/7-1.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="../">ESV</a> > 2 Samuel 7</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="../2_samuel/6.htm" title="2 Samuel 6">◄</a> 2 Samuel 7 <a href="../2_samuel/8.htm" title="2 Samuel 8">►</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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/2_samuel/7.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The <span class="divine-name">Lord’s</span> Covenant with David</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now when the king lived in his house and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart, for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is with you.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But that same night the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came to Nathan, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>: Would you build me a house to dwell in? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></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 for my dwelling. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>In all places where I have moved with all the people of Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Compare 1 Chronicles 17:6; Hebrew tribes">a</a></sup></span> of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?”’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, ‘Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or leader">b</a></sup></span> over my people Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></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 class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more. And violent men shall afflict them no more, as formerly, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></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 class="divine-name">Lord</span> declares to you that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will make you a house. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>but my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Septuagint; Hebrew you">c</a></sup></span> Your throne shall be established forever.’” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David.</p> <p class="heading">David’s Prayer of Gratitude</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then King David went in and sat before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and said, “Who am I, O Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>. You have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and this is instruction for mankind, O Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And what more can David say to you? For you know your servant, O Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Because of your promise, and according to your own heart, you have brought about all this greatness, to make your servant know it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Therefore you are great, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> God. For 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="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name and doing for them<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="With a few Targums, Vulgate, Syriac; Hebrew you">d</a></sup></span> great and awesome things by driving out before your people,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Septuagint (compare 1 Chronicles 17:21); Hebrew awesome things for your land, before your people">e</a></sup></span> whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And you established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever. And you, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, became their God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And now, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> God, confirm forever the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, and do as you have spoken. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And your name will be magnified forever, saying, ‘The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts is God over Israel,’ and the house of your servant David will be established before you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/7-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>For you, O <span class="divine-name">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 class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/7-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And now, O Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>, you are God, and your words are true, and you have promised this good thing to your servant. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/7-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></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 class="divine-name">God</span>, have spoken, and with your blessing shall the house of your servant be blessed forever.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> Compare 1 Chronicles 17:6; Hebrew <i>tribes</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> Or <i>leader</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> Septuagint; Hebrew <i>you</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">23</span> With a few Targums, Vulgate, Syriac; Hebrew <i>you</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">23</span> Septuagint (compare 1 Chronicles 17:21); Hebrew <i>awesome things for your land, before your people</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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