{"id":1156,"date":"2015-01-10T13:47:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T13:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2020-03-08T09:27:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T13:27:11","slug":"1ch17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1ch17\/","title":{"rendered":"1 Chronicles 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"main\">\r\n <div class=\"chapterlabel\"><a name=\"V0\"> 17<\/a><\/div><div class=\"p\">\r\n <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V1\">1\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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 <span class=\"add\">remaineth<\/span> under curtains.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V2\">2\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God <span class=\"add\">is<\/span> with thee. <\/div><div class=\"p\"> <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V3\">3\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V4\">4\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V5\">5\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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 <span class=\"add\">one<\/span> tabernacle <span class=\"add\">to another. <\/span>  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V6\">6\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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?  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V7\">7\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, <span class=\"add\">even<\/span> from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V8\">8\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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 <span class=\"add\">are<\/span> in the earth.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V9\">9\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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,  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V10\">10\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And since the time that I commanded judges <span class=\"add\">to be<\/span> over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that the LORD will build thee an house. <\/div><div class=\"p\"> <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V11\">11\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go <span class=\"add\">to be<\/span> with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V12\">12\u00a0<\/a><\/span>He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V13\">13\u00a0<\/a><\/span>I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took <span class=\"add\">it<\/span> from <span class=\"add\">him<\/span> that was before thee:  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V14\">14\u00a0<\/a><\/span>But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be established for evermore.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V15\">15\u00a0<\/a><\/span>According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David. <\/div><div class=\"p\"> <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V16\">16\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And David the king came and sat before the LORD, and said, Who <span class=\"add\">am<\/span> I, O LORD God, and what <span class=\"add\">is<\/span> mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V17\">17\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And <span class=\"add\">yet<\/span> this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast <span class=\"add\">also<\/span> spoken of thy servant\u2019s house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O LORD God.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V18\">18\u00a0<\/a><\/span>What can David <span class=\"add\">speak<\/span> more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V19\">19\u00a0<\/a><\/span>O LORD, for thy servant\u2019s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V20\">20\u00a0<\/a><\/span>O LORD, <span class=\"add\">there is<\/span> none like thee, neither <span class=\"add\">is there any<\/span> God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V21\">21\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And what one nation in the earth <span class=\"add\">is<\/span> like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem <span class=\"add\">to be<\/span> 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?  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V22\">22\u00a0<\/a><\/span>For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V23\">23\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V24\">24\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts <span class=\"add\">is<\/span> the God of Israel, <span class=\"add\">even<\/span> a God to Israel: and <span class=\"add\">let<\/span> the house of David thy servant <span class=\"add\">be<\/span> established before thee.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V25\">25\u00a0<\/a><\/span>For thou, O my God, hast told thy servant that thou wilt build him an house: therefore thy servant hath found <span class=\"add\">in his heart<\/span> to pray before thee.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V26\">26\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And now, LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V27\">27\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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 <span class=\"add\">it shall be<\/span> blessed for ever. <\/div><hr \/><\/div>\r\n\r\n  <div class=\"chapters\">\r\n    <h3>1 Chronicles Chapters<\/h3>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1ch01\">1<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1ch02\">2<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1ch03\">3<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1ch04\">4<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1ch05\">5<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1ch06\">6<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1ch07\">7<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1ch08\">8<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1ch09\">9<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1ch10\">10<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1ch11\">11<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1ch12\">12<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1ch13\">13<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1ch14\">14<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1ch15\">15<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1ch16\">16<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1ch17\">17<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1ch18\">18<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1ch19\">19<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1ch20\">20<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1ch21\">21<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1ch22\">22<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1ch23\">23<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1ch24\">24<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1ch25\">25<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1ch26\">26<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1ch27\">27<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1ch28\">28<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1ch29\">29<\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17 1\u00a0Now 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. 2\u00a0Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God is with thee. 3\u00a0And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying, 4\u00a0Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in: 5\u00a0For 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. 6\u00a0Wheresoever 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? 7\u00a0Now 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: 8\u00a0And 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. 9\u00a0Also 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, 10\u00a0And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. 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