2 Samuel 7:17-29 - David Responds To Yahweh's Covenant

¹⁷ According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.

¹⁸ Then David the king went in, and sat before LORD. And he said, Who am I, O lord LORD, and what is my house, that thou have brought me thus far? ¹⁹ And this was yet a small thing in thine eyes, O lord LORD, but thou have spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and this [too] according to the manner of men, O lord LORD! ²⁰ And what can David say more to thee? For thou know thy servant, O lord LORD. ²¹ For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, thou have wrought all this greatness, to make thy servant know it. ²² Therefore thou are great, O LORD God, for there is none like thee, neither is there any God besides thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears. ²³ And what one nation on the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make him a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for thy land, before thy people whom ²⁴ And thou established to thyself thy people Israel to be a people to thee forever, and thou, LORD, became their God. ²⁵ And now, O LORD God, the word that thou have spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as thou have spoken. ²⁶ And let thy name be magnified forever, saying, LORD of hosts is God over Israel, and the house of thy servant David shall be established before thee. ²⁷ For thou, O LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee a house. Therefore thy servant has found in his heart to pray this prayer to thee. ²⁸ And now, O lord LORD, thou are God, and thy words are truth, and thou have promised this good thing to thy servant. ²⁹ Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue forever before thee, for thou, O lord LORD, have spoken it. And with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed forever.