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1 Chronicles 17 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

The Lord’s Covenant with David

(2Sa 7:1–29 )

1Ch 17:1

1Ch 17:1Now when David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under a tent.”

1Ch 17:2

1Ch 17:2And Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you.”

1Ch 17:3

1Ch 17:3But that same night the word of the LORD came to Nathan,

1Ch 17:4

1Ch 17:4“Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the LORD: It is not you who will build me a house to dwell in.

1Ch 17:5

1Ch 17:5For I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up Israel to this day, but I have gone from tent to tent and from dwelling to dwelling.

1Ch 17:6

1Ch 17:6In all places where I have moved with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?”’

1Ch 17:7

1Ch 17:7Now, therefore, thus shall you say to my servant David, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people Israel,

1Ch 17:8

1Ch 17:8and I have been with you wherever you have gone and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.

1Ch 17:9

1Ch 17:9And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more. And violent men shall waste them no more, as formerly,

1Ch 17:10

1Ch 17:10from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover, I declare to you that the LORD will build you a house.

1Ch 17:11

1Ch 17:11When your days are fulfilled to walk with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom.

1Ch 17:12

1Ch 17:12He shall build a house for me, and I will establish his throne forever.

1Ch 17:13

1Ch 17:13I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. I will not take my steadfast love from him, as I took it from him who was before you,

1Ch 17:14

1Ch 17:14but I will confirm him in my house and in my kingdom forever, and his throne shall be established forever.’”

1Ch 17:15

1Ch 17:15In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David.

David’s Prayer

1Ch 17:16

1Ch 17:16Then King David went in and sat before the LORD and said, “Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?

1Ch 17:17

1Ch 17:17And this was a small thing in your eyes, O God. You have also spoken of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have shown me future generations,[fn] O LORD God!

1Ch 17:18

1Ch 17:18And what more can David say to you for honoring your servant? For you know your servant.

1Ch 17:19

1Ch 17:19For your servant’s sake, O LORD, and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.

1Ch 17:20

1Ch 17:20There is none like you, O LORD, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

1Ch 17:21

1Ch 17:21And who is like your people Israel, the one[fn] nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making for yourself a name for great and awesome things, in driving out nations before your people whom you redeemed from Egypt?

1Ch 17:22

1Ch 17:22And you made your people Israel to be your people forever, and you, O LORD, became their God.

1Ch 17:23

1Ch 17:23And now, O LORD, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house be established forever, and do as you have spoken,

1Ch 17:24

1Ch 17:24and your name will be established and magnified forever, saying, ‘The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, is Israel’s God,’ and the house of your servant David will be established before you.

1Ch 17:25

1Ch 17:25For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build a house for him. Therefore your servant has found courage to pray before you.

1Ch 17:26

1Ch 17:26And now, O LORD, you are God, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.

1Ch 17:27

1Ch 17:27Now you have been pleased to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you, for it is you, O LORD, who have blessed, and it is blessed forever.”
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