1 Chronicles 17:1-15 - Yahweh's Covenant With David
1 And it will be as David will sit in his house, and David will say to Nathan the prophet, Behold me dwelling in a house of cedars, and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah under curtains.
2 And Nathan will say to David, Do all that is thy heart; for God is with thee.
3 And it will be in that night, and the word of God will be to Nathan, saying, 4 Go and say to David my servant, Thus said Jehovah, Thou shalt not build to me a house to dwell in: 5 For I dwelt not in a house from the day that I brought up Israel even to this day: and I will be from tent to tent, and from a dwelling 6 In all that I went about in all Israel, spake I the word with one of the judges of Israel that I commanded to feed my people, saying, Wherefore built ye not to me a house of cedars
7 And now, thus shalt thou say to my servant, to David, Thus said Jehovah of armies, I took thee from the dwelling from behind the flocks to be leader over my people Israel: 8 And I will be with thee in all which thou walkedst, and I will cut off all thine enemies from thy face, and I made to thee a name as the name of the great ones which are in the earth. 9 And I set a place for my people Israel, and I planted him, and he dwelt in his place, and he shall no more be disturbed; and the sons of evil shall not add to vex him, as in the beginning. 10 And to the days which I commanded judges over my people Israel; and I brought low all thine enemies. And I will announce to thee, and Jehovah will build a house to thee. 11 And it was When thy days were completed to go with thy fathers, and I raised up thy seed after thee, which shall be from thy sons; and I prepared his kingdom. 12 He shall build to me a house, and I prepared his throne even to forever. 13 I will be to him for father, and het shall be to me for son: and my mercy will I not remove from him as I removed from him being before thee. 14 And I caused him to stand in my house and in my kingdom even to forever: and his throne shall be set up even to forever.
15 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so spake Nathan the prophet to David.