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| 1After David had settled down to live in his palace, he spoke with the prophet Nathan. "Look, here I am living in this cedar palace, but the ark of the LORD's covenant remains surrounded by curtains!" | 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.” |
| 2"Do everything you have in mind," Nathan replied to David, "because God is with you." | 2And Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you.” |
| 3But later that same night, this message came to Nathan from God: | 3But that same night the word of the LORD came to Nathan, |
| 4"Go tell David, my servant, 'This is what the Lord says: "'"You won't be building a house for me to inhabit, will you? | 4“Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the LORD: It is not you who will build me a house to dwell in. |
| 5After all, I haven't lived in a house from the day I brought out Israel until today. Instead, I've lived from tent to tent and from one place to another. | 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. |
| 6Wherever I've moved within all of Israel, did I ever ask even one judge of Israel whom I commanded to shepherd my people, 'Why haven't you built me a cedar house?'"' | 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?”’ |
| 7"Now therefore this is what you are to tell my servant David: 'This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "I took you from the pasture myself—from tending sheep—to become Commander-in-Chief over my people Israel. | 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, |
| 8"'"Furthermore, I have remained with you everywhere you have gone, annihilating all your enemies right in front of you. I will make your reputation great, like the reputation of the great ones who have lived on earth. | 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. |
| 9I will establish a homeland for my people Israel, planting them in a secure location where they will never be disturbed anymore. Wicked people will not oppress them as happened in the past, | 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, |
| 10during the time I had commanded judges to administer my people Israel. I'll also grant you deliverance from all your enemies. "'"I'm also announcing to you that the LORD also will himself build a house for you. | 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. |
| 11It will come about that when your life is complete and you go to join your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring after you, who is related to one of your sons, and I will fortify his kingdom. | 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. |
| 12He will build a temple dedicated to me, and I will make his throne last forever. | 12He shall build a house for me, and I will establish his throne forever. |
| 13I will be a father to him and he will be a son to me. I will never remove my gracious love from him as I did from the one who preceded you. | 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, |
| 14I will confirm him in my Temple and in my kingdom forever, and his throne will remain secure forever."'" | 14but I will confirm him in my house and in my kingdom forever, and his throne shall be established forever.’” |
| 15Using precisely these words, Nathan communicated this complete oracle to David. | 15In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David. |
| 16Then King David went in, sat down in the presence of the LORD, and said: "Who am I, LORD God, and what is my household, since you have brought me to this? | 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? |
| 17Furthermore, this is a small thing to you, God, and yet you have spoken concerning your servant's household for a great while to come, and you have seen in me the fulfillment of man's purpose, LORD God. | 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, O LORD God! |
| 18"What more can David say to you about how you are honoring your servant, and you surely know your servant. | 18And what more can David say to you for honoring your servant? For you know your servant. |
| 19LORD, for the sake of your servant, and consistent with your heart, you have done all of these great things and are now making these great things known. | 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. |
| 20"LORD, there is no one like you, and we have heard from no god other than you. | 20There is none like you, O LORD, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. |
| 21What other one nation on the earth is like your people Israel, God, which you have redeemed from slavery to become your own people, making a great name for yourself when you redeemed your people from Egypt. You did awesome miraculous deeds, driving out nations that stood in their way. | 21And who is like your people Israel, the one 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? |
| 22You took your people Israel to be your very own people forever, and you, LORD, have become their God. | 22And you made your people Israel to be your people forever, and you, O LORD, became their God. |
| 23"And now, LORD, let what you have spoken concerning your servant and his household be done forever—and let it be done just as you've promised. | 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, |
| 24May your name be made great and honored forever: The LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, is God for Israel, and may the family of David your servant stand before you forever. | 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. |
| 25"Because of you, my God, I have been bold to pray to you, as you have told your servant that you will build him a dynasty. | 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. |
| 26And now, LORD, you are God, and you have promised all of these good things to your servant. | 26And now, O LORD, you are God, and you have promised this good thing to your servant. |
| 27Furthermore, it has pleased you to bless the dynasty of your servant, so that it will continue in place forever in your presence, because when you, LORD, grant a blessing, it is an eternal blessing." | 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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