1 Chronicles 17:16–27

¹⁶And David the king came and sat before the Lord, and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto? ¹⁷And ^fyet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast ^falso spoken of thy servant’s house for a great while to come, and ^ghast regarded me according to the ^hestate of a man of high degree, O Lord God. ¹⁸What can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant. ¹⁹O Lord, for thy ⁱservant’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all these ^†great things. ²⁰O Lord, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears. ²¹And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt? ²²For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, Lord, becamest their God. ²³Therefore now, Lord, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as thou hast said. ²⁴Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever, saying, The Lord of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and let the house of David thy servant be established before thee. ²⁵For thou, O my God, ^†hast told thy servant that thou wilt build him an house: therefore thy servant hath found ^kin his heart to pray before thee. ²⁶And now, Lord, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant: ²⁷Now therefore ^||let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever: for thou blessest, O Lord, and it shall be blessed for ever.