1 Chronicles 17 And it came to pass, when David dwelt in his house, that David said unto Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in a house of cedar, while the ark of the covenant of the Lord is under curtains.

Leeser⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And it came to pass, when David dwelt in his house, that David said unto Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in a house of cedar, while the ark of the covenant of the Lord is under curtains. ² And Nathan said unto David, All that is in thy heart do; for God is with thee. ³ And it came to pass during that night, that the word of God came unto Nathan, saying, ⁴ Go and say unto David my servant, Thus hath said the Lord, Not thou shalt build for me the house to dwell in; ⁵ For I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up Israel even until this day; but have been moving from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another. ⁶ In all the places where I moved about among all Israel, did I speak a word to any one of the judges of Israel, whom I had ordained to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built for me a house of cedar? ⁷ Now therefore, thus shalt thou say unto my servant, to David, Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, I took thee away from the sheepcote, from behind the flocks, to be a ruler over my people Israel; ⁸ And I have been with thee withersoever thou didst go, and I have cut off all thy enemies from thy presence, and I have made thee a name; like the name of the great men who are on the earth; ⁹ And I have procured a place for my people Israel, and I have planted them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and be no more troubled; and that the children of wickedness shall not waste them any more, as aforetimes, ¹⁰ And as it was since the time that I ordained judges to be over my people Israel; and I have humbled all thy enemies; and now I tell thee that the Lord will build for thee a house. ¹¹ And it shall come to pass, that, when thy days will be completed that thou must go to sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, who shall be of thy sons, and I will establish his kingdom. ¹² He it is that shall build for me a house, and I will establish his throne for ever. ¹³ I too will be to him as a father, and he shall indeed be unto me as a son: and my kindness will I not cause to depart from him, as I caused it to depart from him that was before thee; ¹⁴ But I will place him firmly in my house and in my kingdom for evermore; and his throne shall be established for ever. ¹⁵ In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David. ¹⁶ Then went king David in and sat down before the Lord, and he said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that thou hast brought me as far as hitherward? ¹⁷ And this was yet too small a thing in thy eyes, O God, and thou hast spoken concerning thy servant’s house for a distant time, and hast regarded me as though I belonged to the rank of a man of high degree, O Lord God. ¹⁸ What can David add yet more to speak unto thee of the honor of thy servant? since thou knowest well thy servant. ¹⁹ O Lord, for the sake of thy servant, and in accordance with thy own heart, hast thou done all this great thing, to make known all these great things. ²⁰ O Lord, there is none like thee, and there is no god beside thee, in accordance with all that we have heard with our ears. ²¹ And who is like thy people Israel, the only nation on the earth which God went to redeem for himself as a people, to acquire for thyself a name for great and terrible deeds, by driving out nations from before thy people, which thou hadst redeemed out of Egypt? ²² And thou hast instituted thy people Israel unto thyself as a people for ever; and thou, Lord, art indeed become their God. ²³ And now, O Lord, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be verified for ever, and do as thou hast spoken. ²⁴ Yea, let it be verified, and let thy name be magnified unto everlasting, that men may say, The Lord of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God for Israel; and may the house of David thy servant be established before thee. ²⁵ For thou, O my God, hast revealed to the ear of thy servant, that thou wilt build for him a house; therefore hath thy servant found himself able to pray before thee. ²⁶ And now, O Lord, thou art the true God, and thou hast spoken concerning thy servant this goodness: ²⁷ And now hast thou been pleased to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee; for thou, O Lord, hast blessed, and it will remain blessed for ever.