{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "1 Chronicles",
 "chapter": 17,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains."
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God is with thee."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,"
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:"
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "For I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought up Israel unto this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?"
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:"
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,"
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that the LORD will build thee an house."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee:"
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be established for evermore."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "And David the king came and sat before the LORD, and said, Who am I, O LORD God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?"
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast also spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O LORD God."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "What can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant."
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "O LORD, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all these great things."
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "O LORD, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears."
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt?"
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God."
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as thou hast said."
  },
  {
   "v": 24,
   "t": "Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and let the house of David thy servant be established before thee."
  },
  {
   "v": 25,
   "t": "For thou, O my God, hast told thy servant that thou wilt build him an house: therefore thy servant hath found in his heart to pray before thee."
  },
  {
   "v": 26,
   "t": "And now, LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:"
  },
  {
   "v": 27,
   "t": "Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever: for thou blessest, O LORD, and it shall be blessed for ever."
  }
 ],
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