| International Standard Version | New Living Translation |
| 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!" | 1When David was settled in his palace, he summoned Nathan the prophet. “Look,” David said, “I am living in a beautiful cedar palace, but the Ark of the LORD’s Covenant is out there under a tent!” |
| 2"Do everything you have in mind," Nathan replied to David, "because God is with you." | 2Nathan replied to David, “Do whatever you have in mind, for God is with you.” |
| 3But later that same night, this message came to Nathan from God: | 3But that same night God said 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, ‘This is what the LORD has declared: You are not the one to build a house for me to live 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. | 5I have never lived in a house, from the day I brought the Israelites out of Egypt until this very day. My home has always been a tent, moving from one place to another in a Tabernacle. |
| 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?'"' | 6Yet no matter where I have gone with the Israelites, I have never once complained to Israel’s leaders, the shepherds of my people. I have never asked them, “Why haven’t you built me a beautiful cedar house?”’ |
| 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. | 7“Now go and say to my servant David, ‘This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has declared: I took you from tending sheep in the pasture and selected you to be the leader of 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. | 8I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have destroyed all your enemies before your eyes. Now I will make your name as famous as anyone who has ever lived on 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 provide a homeland for my people Israel, planting them in a secure place where they will never be disturbed. Evil nations won’t oppress them as they’ve done in the past, |
| 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. | 10starting from the time I appointed judges to rule my people Israel. And I will defeat all your enemies. “‘Furthermore, I declare that the LORD will build a house for you—a dynasty of kings! |
| 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. | 11For when you die and join your ancestors, I will raise up one of your descendants, one of your sons, and I will make his kingdom strong. |
| 12He will build a temple dedicated to me, and I will make his throne last forever. | 12He is the one who will build a house—a temple—for me. And I will secure 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 his father, and he will be my son. I will never take my favor from him as I took it from the one who ruled before you. |
| 14I will confirm him in my Temple and in my kingdom forever, and his throne will remain secure forever."'" | 14I will confirm him as king over my house and my kingdom for all time, and his throne will be secure forever.’” |
| 15Using precisely these words, Nathan communicated this complete oracle to David. | 15So Nathan went back to David and told him everything the LORD had said in this vision. David’s Prayer of Thanks |
| 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 prayed, “Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my family, that you have brought me this 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 now, O God, in addition to everything else, you speak of giving your servant a lasting dynasty! You speak as though I were someone very great, O LORD God! |
| 18"What more can David say to you about how you are honoring your servant, and you surely know your servant. | 18“What more can I say to you about the way you have honored me? You know what your servant is really like. |
| 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 the sake of your servant, O LORD, and according to your will, you have done all these great things and have made them known. |
| 20"LORD, there is no one like you, and we have heard from no god other than you. | 20“O LORD, there is no one like you. We have never even heard of another God like you! |
| 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. | 21What other nation on earth is like your people Israel? What other nation, O God, have you redeemed from slavery to be your own people? You made a great name for yourself when you redeemed your people from Egypt. You performed awesome miracles and drove out the nations that stood in their way. |
| 22You took your people Israel to be your very own people forever, and you, LORD, have become their God. | 22You chose Israel to be your very own 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. | 23“And now, O LORD, I am your servant; do as you have promised concerning me and my family. May it be a promise that will last forever. |
| 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 may your name be established and honored forever so that everyone will say, ‘The LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, is Israel’s God!’ And may the house of your servant David continue before you forever. |
| 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. | 25“O my God, I have been bold enough to pray to you because you have revealed to your servant that you will build a house for him—a dynasty of kings! |
| 26And now, LORD, you are God, and you have promised all of these good things to your servant. | 26For you are God, O LORD. And you have promised these good things 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." | 27And now, it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant, so that it will continue forever before you. For when you grant a blessing, O LORD, it is an eternal blessing!” |
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