NITHYAM SONGS1 Chronicles 17
World English Bible (WEB) • 27 verses
1When David was living in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I live in a cedar house, but the ark of the LORD’s covenant is in a tent.”
Related1 Chronicles 15:1 · 2 Chronicles 6:7-9 · 1 Chronicles 17:5 · Haggai 1:9 · Daniel 4:4 · Daniel 4:29-30
2Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you.”
Related1 Corinthians 13:9 · 1 Chronicles 28:2 · Luke 1:28 · Zechariah 8:23 · Joshua 9:14 · 1 Samuel 16:7
3That same night, the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
4“Go and tell David my servant, ‘The LORD says, “You shall not build me a house to dwell in;
Related1 Chronicles 28:2-3 · Isaiah 55:8-9 · 2 Samuel 7:4-5 · 1 Kings 8:19 · 1 Chronicles 22:7-8 · Romans 11:33-34
5for 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.
Related2 Samuel 7:6 · 1 Kings 8:16 · Isaiah 66:1-2 · Exodus 40:2-3 · 2 Chronicles 2:6 · Acts 7:44-50
6In 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?’”’
Related2 Samuel 7:7 · Numbers 10:33-36 · 1 Chronicles 11:2 · Judges 2:16-18 · Exodus 33:14-15 · Ezekiel 34:2
7“Now therefore, you shall tell my servant David, ‘The LORD of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people Israel.
8I 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 on the earth.
Related1 Samuel 18:14 · 1 Chronicles 17:2 · Psalms 113:7-8 · Psalms 71:21 · Psalms 46:7 · 2 Samuel 7:9
9I 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,
RelatedEzekiel 36:14-15 · Revelation 21:4 · Ephesians 5:6 · Amos 9:15 · Exodus 1:13-14 · Exodus 2:23
10and from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that the LORD will build you a house.
11It 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.
RelatedPsalms 132:11 · 2 Samuel 7:12-13 · Jeremiah 23:5-6 · Romans 1:3-4 · 1 Chronicles 29:28 · 1 Kings 8:20
12He will build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.
RelatedIsaiah 9:7 · Daniel 2:44 · 1 Kings 5:5 · Revelation 11:15 · Acts 7:47-48 · 1 Chronicles 28:6-10
13I 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;
RelatedHebrews 1:5 · Psalms 2:7 · 2 Corinthians 6:18 · 1 Samuel 15:28 · Isaiah 55:3 · 1 Chronicles 10:14
14but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever. His throne will be established forever.”’”
15According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.
16Then David the king went in and sat before the LORD; and he said, “Who am I, LORD God, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?
17This was a small thing in your eyes, O God, but you have spoken of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have respected me according to the standard of a man of high degree, LORD God.
RelatedIsaiah 49:6 · Philippians 2:8-11 · Psalms 89:19-37 · Ephesians 3:20 · 1 Chronicles 17:11-15 · 1 Chronicles 17:7-8
18What can David say yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant? For you know your servant.
RelatedJohn 21:17 · Revelation 2:23 · 1 Samuel 16:7 · Psalms 139:1 · 2 Samuel 7:20-24 · 1 Samuel 2:30
19LORD, for your servant’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness, to make known all these great things.
RelatedIsaiah 37:35 · Isaiah 49:5-6 · Ephesians 1:9-11 · 1 Chronicles 29:11-12 · Matthew 11:26 · Ephesians 3:11
20LORD, there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
21What one nation on the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people whom you redeemed out of Egypt?
RelatedEzekiel 20:9-10 · Isaiah 48:9 · Psalms 44:2-3 · Psalms 107:2 · Nehemiah 9:10 · Deuteronomy 7:1-2
22For you made your people Israel your own people forever; and you, LORD, became their God.
RelatedExodus 19:5-6 · 1 Peter 2:9 · Jeremiah 31:31-34 · Romans 9:4-6 · Romans 11:1-12 · Deuteronomy 7:6-8
23Now, LORD, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, be established forever, and do as you have spoken.
24Let your name be established and magnified forever, saying, ‘The LORD of Armies is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel. The house of David your servant is established before you.’
25For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a house. Therefore your servant has found courage to pray before you.
26Now, LORD, you are God, and have promised this good thing to your servant.
27Now it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, LORD, have blessed, and it is blessed forever.”
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