2 Samuel 7:1-16 - Yahweh Makes A Covenant With David

¹ And it will be when the king sat in his house, and Jehovah gave rest to him from round about from all his enemies. ² And the king will say to Nathan the prophet, See now, me dwelling in a house of cedars, and the ark of God dwelling in midst of the curtains.

³ And Nathan will say to the king, All which, is in thy heart, do; for Jehovah is with thee.

⁴ And it will be in that night, and the word of Jehovah will be to Nathan, saying, ⁵ Go and say to my servant, to David, Thus said Jehovah, Shalt thou build me an house for my resting? ⁶ For I dwelt not in a house from the day I brought up the sons of Israel from Egypt even to this day, and I shall be going in a tent and in a dwelling. ⁷ And in all where I went among all the sons of Israel spake I a word with one of the judges of Israel whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why built ye not to me a house of cedars?

⁸ And now thus shalt thou say to my servant, to David, Thus said Jehovah of armies, I took thee from quiet, from after the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel: ⁹ And I will be with thee in all where thou wilt go, and I will cut off all thine enemies from thy face, and I made to thee a great name as the name of the great which are upon the earth. ¹⁰ And I set a place for my people, for Israel, and I planted him and he dwelt in his place, and he shall be no more moved; and the sons of iniquity shall not add to humble him as in the beginning. ¹¹ And from the day I commanded judges over my people Israel, and I gave rest to thee from all thine enemies. And Jehovah announced to thee that Jehovah will make to thee a house. ¹² When thy days shall be filled up and thou shalt lie down with thy fathers, and I raised up thy seed after thee which shall come forth thy bowels, and I prepared his kingdom. ¹³ He shall build a house for my name, and I set the throne of his kingdom even to forever. ¹⁴ I will be to him for father, and he shall be to me for son; who in his sinning I struck him with the rod of men, and with the blows of the sons of men. ¹⁵ And my mercy I will not remove from him as I removed from Saul whom I removed from thy face. ¹⁶ And thy house was firm and thy kingdom even to forever before thee; thy throne shall be prepared even to forever.