017:001 It happened, when David lived in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh [dwells] under curtains. 017:002 Nathan said to David, Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you. 017:003 It happened the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying, 017:004 Go and tell David my servant, Thus says Yahweh, You shall not build me a house to dwell in: 017:005 for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel, to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from [one] tent [to another]. 017:006 In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, spoke I a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, Why have you not built me a house of cedar? 017:007 Now therefore thus shall you tell my servant David, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel: 017:008 and I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth. 017:009 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 children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the first, 017:010 and [as] from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that Yahweh will build you a house. 017:011 It shall happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who shall be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom. 017:012 He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever. 017:013 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before you; 017:014 but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever; and his throne shall be established forever. 017:015 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to David. 017:016 Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, Who am I, Yahweh God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far? 017:017 This was a small thing in your eyes, God; but you have spoken of your servant's house for a great while to come, and have regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, Yahweh God. 017:018 What can David [say] yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant? for you know your servant.