⁷“Now then, tell my servant David, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty says: I took you from the pasture, from tending the flock, and appointed you ruler^g over my people Israel. ⁸I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make your name like the names of the greatest men on earth. ⁹And I will provide a place for my people Israel and will plant them so that they can have a home of their own and no longer be disturbed. Wicked people will not oppress them anymore, as they did at the beginning ¹⁰and have done ever since the time I appointed leaders^h over my people Israel. I will also subdue all your enemies.

“ ‘I declare to you that the Lord will build a house for you: ¹¹When your days are over and you go to be with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom. ¹²He is the one who will buildⁱ a house for me, and I will establish his throne forever.^j ¹³I will be his father,^k and he will be my son.^l I will never take my love away from him, as I took it away from your predecessor. ¹⁴I will set him over my house and my kingdom forever; his throne^m will be established forever.ⁿ’ ”

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Cross references

gSee 2 Sa 6:21
hSee Jdg 2:16
iSee 1 Ki 5:5
j 1 Ch 22:10; 2 Ch 7:18; 13:5
k 2 Co 6:18
l 1 Ch 28:6; Lk 1:32; Heb 1:5*
mSee 1 Ki 2:12; 1 Ch 28:5; 29:23; 2 Ch 9:8
n Ps 132:11; Jer 33:17