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17:1  Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in a house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remains under curtains.
17:2  Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you.
17:3  And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
17:4  Go and tell David my servant, Thus says the LORD, You shall not build me a house to dwell in:
17:5  For I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up Israel unto this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another.
17:6  Wherever I have walked with all Israel, spoke I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have you not built me a house of cedars?
17:7  Now therefore thus shall you say unto my servant David, Thus says the LORD of hosts, I took you from the sheepfold, even from following the sheep, that you should be ruler over my people Israel:
17:8  And I have been with you wherever you have walked, and have cut off all your enemies from before you, and have made you a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.
17:9  Also I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness oppress them any more, as at the beginning,
17:10  And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all your enemies. Furthermore I tell you that the LORD will build you a house.
17:11  And it shall come to pass, when your days are ended that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will raise up your descendant after you, who shall be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
17:12  He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.
17:13  I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before you:
17:14  But I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever: and his throne shall be established forevermore.
17:15  According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
17:16  And David the king came and sat before the LORD, and said, Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?
17:17  And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O God; for you have also spoken of your servant's house for a great while to come, and have regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O LORD God.
17:18  What can David speak more to you for the honor of your servant? for you know your servant.
17:19  O LORD, for your servant's sake, and according to your own heart, have you done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.
17:20  O LORD, there is none like you, neither is there any God beside you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
17:21  And what one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make you a name of greatness and awesomeness, by driving out nations from before your people, whom you have redeemed out of Egypt?
17:22  For your people Israel did you make your own people forever; and you, LORD, became their God.
17:23  Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house be established forever, and do as you have said.
17:24  Let it even be established, that your name may be magnified forever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and let the house of David your servant be established before you.
17:25  For you, O my God, have told your servant that you will build him a house: therefore your servant has found in his heart to pray before you.
17:26  And now, LORD, you are God, and have promised this goodness unto your servant:
17:27  Now therefore let it please you to bless the house of your servant, that it may be before you forever: for you bless, O LORD, and it shall be blessed forever.