<!--more--><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000000">Old Testament</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1010604">1 Chronicles</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1011232">Chapter 17</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1011188">&laquo; Previous Chapter</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1011260">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=1011233">1</a>. NOW it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1011234">2</a>. Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God is with thee.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1011235">3</a>. And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1011236">4</a>. Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1011237">5</a>. For I have not dwelt in an 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1011238">6</a>. Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1011239">7</a>. Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1011240">8</a>. And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1011241">9</a>. Also I will ordain 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 waste them any more, as at the beginning,</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1011242">10</a>. And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel.  Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that the LORD will build thee an house.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1011243">11</a>. And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1011244">12</a>. He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1011245">13</a>. 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 thee:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1011246">14</a>. But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be established for evermore.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1011247">15</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=1011248">16</a>. And David the king came and sat before the LORD, and said, Who am I, O LORD God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1011249">17</a>. And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast also spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O LORD God.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1011250">18</a>. What can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy servant?  for thou knowest thy servant.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1011251">19</a>. O LORD, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1011252">20</a>. O LORD, 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=1011253">21</a>. And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1011254">22</a>. For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1011255">23</a>. Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as thou hast said.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1011256">24</a>. Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and let the house of David thy servant be established before thee.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1011257">25</a>. For thou, O my God, hast told thy servant that thou wilt build him an house: therefore thy servant hath found in his heart to pray before thee.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1011258">26</a>. And now, LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1011259">27</a>. Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever: for thou blessest, O LORD, and it shall be blessed for ever.</li>
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