Thematic Bible
2 Samuel 7:1 (show verse)
And it came to pass, when the king dwelt in his house, and LORD had given him rest from all his enemies round about,
2 Samuel 7:2 (show verse)
that the king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within curtains.
2 Samuel 7:3 (show verse)
And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thy heart, for LORD is with thee.
2 Samuel 7:4 (show verse)
And it came to pass the same night, that the word of LORD came to Nathan, saying,
2 Samuel 7:5 (show verse)
Go and tell my servant David, Thus says LORD, Shall thou build a house for me to dwell in?
2 Samuel 7:6 (show verse)
For I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up the sons of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.
2 Samuel 7:7 (show verse)
In all places in which I have walked with all the sons of Israel, did I speak a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, Why have ye not built for me a house of cedar?
2 Samuel 7:8 (show verse)
Now therefore thus thou shall say to my servant David, Thus says LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepfold, from following the sheep, that thou should be prince over my people, over Israel.
2 Samuel 7:9 (show verse)
And I have been with thee wherever thou went, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee. And I will make thee a great name, like the name of the great ones that are on the earth.
2 Samuel 7:10 (show verse)
And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more. Neither shall the sons of iniquity afflict them any more, as at the first,
2 Samuel 7:11 (show verse)
and [as] from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and I will cause thee to rest from all thine enemies. Moreover LORD tells thee that LORD will make thee a house.
2 Samuel 7:12 (show verse)
When thy days are fulfilled, and thou shall sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, who shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
2 Samuel 7:13 (show verse)
He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
2 Samuel 7:14 (show verse)
I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the sons of men,
2 Samuel 7:15 (show verse)
but my loving kindness shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul whom I put away before thee.
2 Samuel 7:16 (show verse)
And thy house and thy kingdom shall be made sure forever before thee; thy throne shall be established forever.
2 Samuel 7:17 (show verse)
According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.
2 Samuel 7:18 (show verse)
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?
2 Samuel 7:19 (show verse)
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!
2 Samuel 7:20 (show verse)
And what can David say more to thee? For thou know thy servant, O lord LORD.
2 Samuel 7:21 (show verse)
For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, thou have wrought all this greatness, to make thy servant know it.
2 Samuel 7:22 (show verse)
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.
2 Samuel 7:23 (show verse)
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
2 Samuel 7:24 (show verse)
And thou established to thyself thy people Israel to be a people to thee forever, and thou, LORD, became their God.
2 Samuel 7:25 (show verse)
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.
2 Samuel 7:26 (show verse)
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.
2 Samuel 7:27 (show verse)
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.
2 Samuel 7:28 (show verse)
And now, O lord LORD, thou are God, and thy words are truth, and thou have promised this good thing to thy servant.
2 Samuel 7:29 (show verse)
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.