Thematic Bible




1 Chronicles 17:1 (show verse)

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.

1 Chronicles 17:2 (show verse)

And Nathan will say to David, Do all that is thy heart; for God is with thee.

1 Chronicles 17:3 (show verse)

And it will be in that night, and the word of God will be to Nathan, saying,

1 Chronicles 17:4 (show verse)

Go and say to David my servant, Thus said Jehovah, Thou shalt not build to me a house to dwell in:

1 Chronicles 17:5 (show verse)

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

1 Chronicles 17:6 (show verse)

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

1 Chronicles 17:7 (show verse)

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:

1 Chronicles 17:8 (show verse)

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.

1 Chronicles 17:9 (show verse)

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.

1 Chronicles 17:10 (show verse)

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.

1 Chronicles 17:11 (show verse)

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.

1 Chronicles 17:12 (show verse)

He shall build to me a house, and I prepared his throne even to forever.

1 Chronicles 17:13 (show verse)

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.

1 Chronicles 17:14 (show verse)

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.

1 Chronicles 17:15 (show verse)

According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so spake Nathan the prophet to David.

1 Chronicles 17:16 (show verse)

And king David will come and sit before Jehovah, and he will say, Who am I, O Jehovah God, and what my house, that thou broughtest me even to hither?

1 Chronicles 17:17 (show verse)

And this will be small in thine eyes, O God; and thou wilt speak upon the house of thy servant to far off, and thou sawest me according to the manner of the man of the ascent, O Jehovah God.

1 Chronicles 17:18 (show verse)

What more shall David add to thee to honor thy servant? for thou knewest thy servant.

1 Chronicles 17:19 (show verse)

O Jehovah, for sake of thy servant, and according to thy heart, thou didst all this greatness to make known all thy greatnesses

1 Chronicles 17:20 (show verse)

O Jehovah, none like thee, and no God besides thee, in all that we heard with our ears.

1 Chronicles 17:21 (show verse)

And what one nation as thy people Israel, in the earth, whom God went to redeem to him a people to set up to thee a name of greatnesses and terrible things, to thrust out nations from before thy people, whom thou didst redeem from Egypt?

1 Chronicles 17:22 (show verse)

And thou wilt give thy people Israel to thee for a people even to forever; and thou, O Jehovah, wert to them for God.

1 Chronicles 17:23 (show verse)

And now, O Jehovah, the word which thou spakest concerning thy servant and concerning his house, shall be faithful even to forever, and do as thou spakest

1 Chronicles 17:24 (show verse)

And it shall be firm, and thy name shall be magnified even to forever, saying, Jehovah of armies, God of Israel, is God to Israel: and the house of David thy servant was prepared before thee.

1 Chronicles 17:25 (show verse)

For thou, my God, didst uncover the ear of thy servant to build for him a house: for this thy servant found to pray before thee.

1 Chronicles 17:26 (show verse)

And now, O Jehovah, thou thyself art God, and thou wilt speak concerning thy servant this goodness.

1 Chronicles 17:27 (show verse)

And now thou wert pleased to bless the house of thy servant, to be forever before thee: for thou didst bless, and blessing forever.