English Bible Presentation Sharing - 1-Chronicles Book, chapter 17, verse 1 in Mkjv Version

1 Chronicles 17 : 1 (MKJV)

And it happened as David sat in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in a house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of Jehovah is under curtains.

1 Chronicles 17 : 2 (MKJV)

And Nathan said to David, Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you.

1 Chronicles 17 : 3 (MKJV)

And it happened the same night the Word of God came to Nathan, saying,

1 Chronicles 17 : 4 (MKJV)

Go and tell David My servant, So says Jehovah, You shall not build Me a house to dwell in.

1 Chronicles 17 : 5 (MKJV)

For I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up Israel until today, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another.

1 Chronicles 17 : 6 (MKJV)

Wherever I have walked with all Israel, did I speak a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed My people, saying, Why have you not built Me a house of cedars?

1 Chronicles 17 : 7 (MKJV)

And now you shall say this to My servant David, So says Jehovah of Hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, so that you should be ruler over My people Israel.

1 Chronicles 17 : 8 (MKJV)

And I have been with you wherever you have walked, and have cut off all your enemies from before you, and have made you a name like the name of the great men in the earth.

1 Chronicles 17 : 9 (MKJV)

And I will set a place for My people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall live in their place and shall be moved no more; nor shall the sons of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,

1 Chronicles 17 : 10 (MKJV)

and since the time that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. And I declare to you that Jehovah will build you a house.

1 Chronicles 17 : 11 (MKJV)

And it will be, when your days have ended so that you must go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your seed after you, who shall be from your sons. And I will make his kingdom sure.

1 Chronicles 17 : 12 (MKJV)

He shall build Me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.

1 Chronicles 17 : 13 (MKJV)

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 who was before you.

1 Chronicles 17 : 14 (MKJV)

And I will settle him in My house, and in My kingdom forever. And his throne shall be established forever.

1 Chronicles 17 : 15 (MKJV)

According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.

1 Chronicles 17 : 16 (MKJV)

And David the king came and sat before Jehovah, and said, Who am I, O, Jehovah God, and what is my house, that You have brought me here?

1 Chronicles 17 : 17 (MKJV)

And this was a small thing in Your eyes, O God, for You have also spoken of Your servant's house for a great while to come, and have regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O Jehovah God.

1 Chronicles 17 : 18 (MKJV)

What can David say more to You for the honor of Your servant? For You know Your servant!

1 Chronicles 17 : 19 (MKJV)

O Jehovah, for Your servant's sake, and according to Your own heart, You have done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.

1 Chronicles 17 : 20 (MKJV)

O Jehovah, there is none like You, neither any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

1 Chronicles 17 : 21 (MKJV)

And what one nation in the earth is like Your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be His own people, to make You a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before Your people whom You have redeemed out of Egypt?

1 Chronicles 17 : 22 (MKJV)

And You have chosen Your people Israel for Yourself, for a people forever. And You, Jehovah, became their God.

1 Chronicles 17 : 23 (MKJV)

And now, O Jehovah, let the thing which You have spoken concerning Your servant and concerning his house be established forever, and do as You have said.

1 Chronicles 17 : 24 (MKJV)

Let it even be established, so that Your name may be magnified forever, saying, Jehovah of Hosts is the God of Israel, a God to Israel. And let the house of David Your servant be established before You.

1 Chronicles 17 : 25 (MKJV)

For You, O my God, have told Your servant that You will build him a house. Therefore Your servant has found in his heart to pray before You.

1 Chronicles 17 : 26 (MKJV)

And now, Jehovah, You are God, and have promised this goodness to Your servant.

1 Chronicles 17 : 27 (MKJV)

And now let it please You to bless the house of Your servant so that it may be before You forever. For You have blessed, O Jehovah, and it is blessed forever.