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17 After David began to live in his palace, he said to the prophet Nathan, “It does not seem right that I am living in a palace made of cedar wood, but the sacred chest symbolizing the agreement between Yahweh and the people of Israel stays inside a tent!”
2 Nathan replied to David, “Everything you are thinking about doing, do it, because God is with you.”
3 But that night God spoke to Nathan. He said,
4 “Go and tell my servant David this is what I, Yahweh, am saying to him: ‘You will not build a temple for me to live in, 5 since I have not lived in any building from the day that I brought the people of Israel up out of Egypt until now. Rather, I have lived in my sacred tent, moving from one place to another when the Israelites moved around. 6 Wherever I went with all the Israelites as they traveled, I never said to any of their leaders whom I appointed to lead them, “Why have you not built me a temple made of cedar wood?”
7 Therefore, this is what you should say to my servant David: “Yahweh, the commander of the angel armies, says, ‘I took you from a pasture where you were taking care of sheep, and I appointed you to be the ruler of Israel, my people. 8 I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have removed all your enemies who opposed you. Now, I will cause you to become very famous, as well known as the names of the greatest men who have ever lived on the earth. 9-10 9-10Formerly, during the time that I appointed leaders for my Israelite people, many violent groups oppressed them. But this will not happen anymore. I have chosen a place where my Israelite people can live peacefully and no one will disturb them anymore. I will give them rest from being attacked by their enemies. And I will defeat all your enemies.
I declare to you that I, Yahweh, will enable your descendants to rule after you die. 11 When your life ends and you die and go to be with your ancestors who have died, I will appoint one of your descendants, one of your sons, to become king, and I will enable his kingdom to be strong. 12 He is the one who will lead the building of a temple for me. And I will make his ruling dynasty last forever. 13 I will be like a father to him, and he will be like a son to me. I stopped giving faithful love to Saul, the one who was the king before you became king, but I will never stop giving faithful love to your son. 14 I will cause him and his descendants to rule over my people and my kingdom forever. His ruling dynasty will last forever.’”
15 So Nathan reported to David everything that Yahweh had revealed to him.
16 Then King David went into the tent housing the sacred chest, sat in the presence of Yahweh, and prayed this prayer:
“Yahweh my God, I am certainly not worthy for you to have done of all these things for me, and my family is not worthy, either.
17 And O God, now, in addition to everything else, you have spoken about what will happen to my descendants in the future for many generations. Yahweh my God, you have acted toward me as though I was the most important man on the earth!
18 I, David, cannot say anything more to you in exchange for you honoring me. Yahweh, you know what kind of person I am. 19 Yahweh, you have done these great things for my sake, according to the way you wanted, and in order to reveal all of these great things.
20 Yahweh, there is no one like you. You are the only true God. This is what we have always heard. 21 And there is no nation like Israel because Israel is the only nation on the earth whose people you went out to rescue to make them your people, to perform miracles and show how great and awesome you are, and to expel the people of other people groups in Canaan who were before your people, the Israelites, whom you rescued from being slaves in Egypt. 22 You caused us your Israelite people to belong to you as your people forever, and you, Yahweh, became our God!
23 And now Yahweh, I pray that you will cause the things that you have promised about me and my descendants to be fulfilled forever, and do the things that you have said that you would do. 24 I pray that those things will happen so people will celebrate your excellent reputation forever. People will exclaim, ‘Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, is the God of Israel. He is the God who rules Israel!’ You will cause my descendants to be the king of the people you rule,
25 because you, my God, have revealed to me that you will cause me to have a ruling dynasty. So I am brave enough to pray like this to you. 26 Now, Yahweh, you are God! You have promised to do these good things for me. 27 And now you have promised to bless my descendants, in order that they will forever be king over the people you rule. Indeed, you, Yahweh, have given your blessing, and you will keep blessing them forever.”
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