2 Samuel 7:12–29

¹²And ^uwhen thy days be fulfilled, and thou ^xshalt sleep with thy fathers, ^yI will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. ^13zHe shall build an house for my name, and I will ^astablish the throne of his kingdom for ever. ^14bI will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he ^ccommit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: ¹⁵But my mercy shall not depart away from him, ^das I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee. ¹⁶And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: ^ethy throne shall be established for ever. ¹⁷According to all these words, and according to all this ^fvision, so did Nathan speak unto David.

¹⁸Then went king David in, and sat before the Lord, and he said, ^gWho am I, O Lord God? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto? ¹⁹And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord God; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant’s house for a great while to come. ^hAnd is this the ^†manner of man, O Lord God? ²⁰And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord God, ⁱknowest thy servant. ²¹For thy word’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them. ²²Wherefore ^jthou art great, O Lord God: for ^kthere is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears. ²³And ^lwhat one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you ^mgreat things and terrible, for thy land, before ⁿthy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods? ²⁴For thou hast ^oconfirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever: and thou, Lord, art become their God. ²⁵And now, O Lord God, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, ^pestablish it for ever, and do as thou hast said. ²⁶And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, The Lord of hosts is the God over Israel: and let the house of thy servant David be established before thee. ²⁷For thou, O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, hast ^†revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee. ²⁸And now, O Lord God, thou art that God, and ^qthy words be true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant: ²⁹Therefore now ^†let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee: for thou, O Lord God, hast spoken it: and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed ^rfor ever.