1 Chronicles 17:7
“Now therefore, you shall tell my servant David, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people Israel.
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1 Chronicles 17:7
“Now therefore, you shall tell my servant David, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people Israel.
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1 Chronicles 17:1
When David was living in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I live in a cedar house, but the ark of Yahweh’s covenant is in a tent.”
1 Chronicles 17:2
Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you.”
1 Chronicles 17:3
That same night, the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
1 Chronicles 17:4
“Go and tell David my servant, ‘Yahweh says, “You shall not build me a house to dwell in;
1 Chronicles 17:5
for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tent to another.
1 Chronicles 17:6
In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’ ” ’
1 Chronicles 17:7
“Now therefore, you shall tell my servant David, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people Israel.
1 Chronicles 17:8
I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a name like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.
1 Chronicles 17:9
I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will not waste them any more, as at the first,
1 Chronicles 17:10
and from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that Yahweh will build you a house.
1 Chronicles 17:11
It will happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your offspring after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
1 Chronicles 17:12
He will build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.
1 Chronicles 17:13
I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him who was before you;
1 Chronicles 17:14
but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever. His throne will be established forever.” ’ ”
1 Chronicles 17:15
According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.
2 Samuel 7:5
“Go and tell my servant David, ‘Yahweh says, “Should you build me a house for me to dwell in?
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2 Samuel 7:8
Now therefore tell my servant David this: ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people, over Israel.
1 Samuel 16:11
Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your children here?” He said, “There remains yet the youngest. Behold, he is keeping the sheep.” Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him, for we will not sit down until he comes here.”
1 Samuel 16:12
He sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, with a handsome face and good appearance. Yahweh said, “Arise! Anoint him, for this is he.”
Psalms 78:70
He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
Psalms 78:71
from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.
1 Samuel 17:15
Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.
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