007:003 Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in your heart; for Yahweh is with you. 007:004 It happened the same night, that the word of Yahweh came to Nathan, saying, 007:005 Go and tell my servant David, Thus says Yahweh, Shall you build me a house for me to dwell in? 007:006 for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have moved around in a tent and in a tabernacle. 007:007 In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel, spoke I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, Why have you not built me a house of cedar? 007:008 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, over Israel; 007:009 and I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth. 007:010 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 afflict them any more, as at the first, 007:011 and [as] from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. Moreover Yahweh tells you that Yahweh will make you a house. 007:012 When your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who shall proceed out of your bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. 007:013 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 007:014 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: if he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men; 007:015 but my loving kindness shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you. 007:016 Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure for ever before you: your throne shall be established forever. 007:017 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to David. 007:018 Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, Who am I, Lord Yahweh, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far? 007:019 This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh; but you have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come; and this [too] after the manner of men, Lord Yahweh! 007:020 What can David say more to you? for you know your servant, Lord Yahweh.