UST 1 CHR Chapter 17

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17 After David had begun to live in his palace, he told the prophet Nathan, “I am living in a palace a palace that King Hiram’s craftsmen built for me from cedar wood. But the sacred chest that is a symbol of the agreement between Yahweh and the people of Israel is in a tent. That does not seem right.”

2 Then Nathan told King David, “God will help you, so you may do what you want to do.”

3 But that night, God appeared to Nathan and told him,

4 “Go and give my servant David this message from me. Tell him that he is not the one who will build a temple in which I will be present in a special way. 5 I have not been especially present in any building from the time when I brought the Israelites here from Egypt until now. Instead, I have been present in my sacred tent, moving from one place to another with the people. 6 I went with the Israelites wherever they traveled, but I never told any of the leaders whom I appointed to rule them that they should have built a temple for me out of cedar wood.

7 So give my servant David this message from me, Yahweh, the commander of the heavenly armies. Although he worked out in the fields caring for his father’s sheep, I appointed him to become the king of my Israelite people. 8 Remind him that I have protected him wherever he has gone. I have enabled him to defeat all the enemies who attacked him. Now I will make him very famous. He will become as famous as the greatest people who have ever lived on earth.9-10 9-10When my Israelite people were slaves in Egypt, violent people oppressed them. They also oppressed them in this land during the time when I was appointing judges to lead them. But this will not happen anymore. I have made a place where my people can live, and I will enable them to keep living there. They will no longer be afraid. I will make all their enemies stop attacking them. Tell David that I promise that I, Yahweh, will enable his descendants to rule as kings. 11 Tell David that after he has lived out his life and died, I will appoint one of his descendants who is one of his own sons to be the next king. I will make sure that he remains the king. 12 Assure David that that son of his will build a temple for me. No one will ever replace him as the king. 13 It will be as if I am his father and he is my son. I will never stop treating him favorably as I stopped treating favorably the king who reigned before David. 14 So assure David that his descendants will continually rule the kingdom of Israel after him. No other family will ever replace them as the royal family.”

15 Nathan went and told David everything that Yahweh had told him when he appeared to him.

16 Then King David went to the sacred tent and sat in Yahweh’s presence. He prayed, “Yahweh my God, I am not a very important person, and I do not come from a very important family. So I do not deserve the things that you have done for me already.

17 But now you want to do even more than this. After all, you have said that my descendants will rule for a very long time. You are treating me as if I am an important person, Yahweh my God.

18 I am not able to say anything further to you about honoring me. But you know me so well that you know what I would say if I could say it. 19 Yahweh, you are going to do this wonderful thing because you promised to make me a king, and because it is what you really want to do. It was also wonderful for you to tell me about this now.

20 Yahweh, the gods that the people of other nations worship are nothing like you. We have never heard of any real God except for you. 21 No other nation is like the people of Israel, who belong to you. We are the only nation in the world whose God rescued them so that they could be his people. You rescued us Israelites from being slaves in Egypt. Then you forced the nations that were living here to leave so that we could live here. Because you did these things, you are famous, and people respect you. 22 You caused us Israelites to be your people forever, and you, Yahweh, have become our God!

23 Yahweh, you have promised to do wonderful things for me and my descendants. So please do what you have promised, and please make sure that those things always happen. 24 When you do that, you will become famous forever. People will exclaim, ‘The Israelites worship Yahweh, the commander of the heavenly armies, and he helps them as their God!’ And you will make sure that a descendant of mine will always rule the Israelites.

25 I am confident that you will do this, because you, God, have revealed to me that you will make some of my descendants kings. For that reason, I have been bold enough to pray like this to you. 26 So now, Yahweh, because you are God, I know that you will do these good things that you have promised to me. 27 So now I pray that it will please you to do good things for my descendants. Please enable them to keep ruling your Israelite people. You, Yahweh, have promised to do these good things, so I know that you will keep doing good things for my descendants.”

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UST 1 CHR Chapter 17

UST 1 CHR Chapter 17