1 Chronicles 17:1–17

¹And it cometh to pass as David sat in his house, that David saith unto Nathan the prophet, ‘Lo, I am dwelling in a house of cedars, and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah is under curtains;’ ²and Nathan saith unto David, ‘All that is in thy heart do, for God is with thee.’ ³And it cometh to pass on that night that a word of God is unto Nathan, saying, ⁴‘Go, and thou hast said unto David My servant, Thus said Jehovah, Thou dost not build for Me the house to dwell in: ⁵for I have not dwelt in a house from the day that I brought up Israel till this day, and I am from tent unto tent: and from the tabernacle, ⁶whithersoever I have walked up and down among all Israel, a word spake I, with one of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed My people, saying, Why have ye not built for Me a house of cedars?

⁷‘And now, thus dost thou say to My servant, to David, Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, I have taken thee from the habitation, from after the sheep, to be leader over My people Israel, ⁸and I am with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and I cut off all thine enemies from thy presence, and have made for thee a name like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.

⁹‘And I have prepared a place for My people Israel, and planted it, and it hath dwelt in its place, and is not troubled any more, and the sons of perverseness add not to wear it out as at first, ¹⁰yea, even from the days that I appointed judges over My people Israel. ‘And I have humbled all thine enemies, and I declare to thee that a house doth Jehovah build for thee, ¹¹and it hath come to pass, when thy days have been fulfilled to go with thy fathers, that I have raised up thy seed after thee, who is of thy sons, and I have established his kingdom, ¹²he doth build for Me a house, and I have established his throne unto the age; ¹³I am to him for a father, and he is to Me for a son, and My kindness I turn not aside from him as I turned it aside from him who was before thee, ¹⁴and I have established him in My house, and in My kingdom unto the age, and his throne is established unto the age.’ ¹⁵According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so spake Nathan unto David.

¹⁶And David the king cometh in and sitteth before Jehovah, and saith, ‘Who am I, O Jehovah God, and what my house, that Thou hast brought me hitherto? ¹⁷And this is small in Thine eyes, O God, and Thou speakest concerning the house of thy servant afar off, and hast seen me as a type of the man who is on high, O Jehovah God!