1 Chronicles 17:15
So Nathan gave David an account of all these words and this vision.
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1 Chronicles 17:15
So Nathan gave David an account of all these words and this vision.
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1 Chronicles 17:2
And Nathan said to David, Do whatever is in your heart, for God is with you.
1 Chronicles 17:3
But that same night, the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
1 Chronicles 17:4
Go and say to David my servant, The Lord says, You are not to make me a house for my living-place:
1 Chronicles 17:5
For from the day when I took Israel up, till this day, I have had no house, but have gone from tent to tent, and from living-place to living-place.
1 Chronicles 17:6
In all the places where I have gone with all Israel, did I ever say to any of the judges of Israel, whom I made the keepers of my people, Why have you not made for me a house of cedar?
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1 Chronicles 17:7
So now, say to my servant David, The Lord of armies says, I took you from the fields, from keeping sheep, so that you might be a ruler over my people Israel;
1 Chronicles 17:8
And I have been with you wherever you went, cutting off before you all those who were against you; and I will make your name like the name of the greatest ones of the earth.
1 Chronicles 17:9
And I will make a resting-place for my people Israel, planting them there, so that they may be in the place which is theirs and never again be moved; and never again will they be made waste by evil men, as they were at first,
1 Chronicles 17:10
From the time when I put judges over my people Israel; and I will overcome all those who are against you; and I will make you great and the head of a line of kings.
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