<!--more--><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000000">Old Testament</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1008300">2 Samuel</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1008465">Chapter 7</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1008441">&laquo; Previous Chapter</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1008495">Next Chapter &raquo;</a></span></div></div><p><em>King David</em></p><p><em>Exploits</em></p><ul class="scripturelog_verse_list"><li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1008466">1</a>. AND it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1008467">2</a>. That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1008468">3</a>. And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thine heart; for the LORD is with thee.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1008469">4</a>. And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came unto Nathan, saying,</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1008470">5</a>. Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1008471">6</a>. Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1008472">7</a>. In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1008473">8</a>. Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1008474">9</a>. And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1008475">10</a>. Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1008476">11</a>. And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies.  Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1008477">12</a>. And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1008478">13</a>. He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1008479">14</a>. I will be his father, and he shall be my son.  If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1008480">15</a>. But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1008481">16</a>. And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1008482">17</a>. According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1008483">18</a>. Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he said, Who am I, O Lord GOD?  and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1008484">19</a>. And 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.  And is this the manner of man, O Lord GOD?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1008485">20</a>. And what can David say more unto thee?  for thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy servant.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1008486">21</a>. For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1008487">22</a>. Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1008488">23</a>. And what 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 great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1008489">24</a>. For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art become their God.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1008490">25</a>. And now, O LORD God, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, establish it for ever, and do as thou hast said.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1008491">26</a>. And 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1008492">27</a>. For 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1008493">28</a>. And now, O Lord GOD, thou art that God, and thy words be true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1008494">29</a>. Therefore 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 for ever.</li>
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