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The Second Book of Samuel 7

7 And it happened that the king lived in his house. And Yahweh gave rest to him all around from all his enemies. 2 And the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See, now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the Box of God is living in the midst of the curtain.”

3 And Nathan said to the king, “Everything that is in your heart, go, do, because Yahweh is with you.”

4 And it happened, during that night, and the word of Yahweh was to Nathan, saying,

5 “Go, and you will say to my servant, to David, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “Will you build for me a house for my living? 6 For I have not lived in a house from the day of my bringing up the sons of Israel from Egypt and up to this day. And I was going about in tent and in tabernacle. 7 In every place that I went about with all the sons of Israel, did I say a word with one of the rods of Israel whom I commanded to shepherd my people, Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built for me a house of cedar?’ ” ’

8 “But now, thus you will say to my servant, to David, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, “I myself took you from the grazing place, from following after the flock, to become leader over my people, over Israel. 9 And I have been with you in every place that you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from your face. And I will make for you a great name like the name of the great people who are in the land. 10 And I will put a place for my people, for Israel, and I will plant him that he may live in his place, and he will not tremble anymore, and the sons of iniquity will not continue to afflict him, as formerly, 11 and from the day when I commanded judges over my people, Israel. And I will give rest to you from all your enemies.

“And Yahweh declares to you that a house Yahweh will make for you. 12 When your days are filled, and you lie down with your fathers, and I will raise up your seed after you who will come out from your belly. And I will establish his kingdom. 13 He himself will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom until forever. 14 I myself will become a father to him, and he himself will become a son to me that, when he sins, and I will reproach him with a rod of men and with the blows of the sons of man. 15 But my kindness will not turn aside from you as I turned aside from with Saul, whom I turned aside from before your faces. 16 And your house and your kingdom will endure until forever to your face. Your throne will be established until forever.’ ”

17 According to all of these words and according to all of this vision, thus Nathan spoke to David.

18 And King David went, and he sat to the face of Yahweh, and he said,

“Who am I, my Lord Yahweh, and who is my house that you have brought me to here? 19 And still this was small in your eyes, my Lord Yahweh. And you spoke even about the house of your servant from long ago. And this is the law of humanity, my Lord Yahweh!

20 “What more will David continue to say to you? But you yourself know your servant, my Lord Yahweh. 21 For the sake of your word and according to your heart you have done all this greatness, by making your servant know it.

22 “Therefore, you are great, my Lord Yahweh, because there is no one like you and there is no God except you, in everything that we have heard with our ears. 23 And who is like your people, like Israel—one nation on the earth whom God went to redeem for himself as a people and to set for himself a name and to do for them the greatness and the fearful things for your land, from before the face of your people who you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods? 24 And you established for yourself your people Israel, for yourself, as a people until forever. And you yourself, Yahweh, became God for them.

25 “And now, Yahweh God, the word which you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, confirm until forever and do just as you have spoken. 26 And may your name be great until forever, saying, ‘Yahweh of Hosts is God over Israel,’ and the house of your servant David will be established to your face.

27 “For you, Yahweh of Hosts are the God of Israel. You have uncovered the ear of your servant, saying, ‘I will build a house for you.’ Therefore, your servant has found his heart to pray to you this prayer. 28 “And now, my Lord Yahweh, you are he, the God, and your words are true. And you have spoken concerning your servant this good thing. 29 And now, be resolved and bless the house of your servant to be to your face forever. For you yourself, my Lord Yahweh, have spoken and from your blessing the house of your servant will be blessed forever.”

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