2 Samuel 7

1When the king lived in his house, and Yahweh had given him rest from all his enemies all around,Cross-references: Josh 21:44 · Josh 23:1 · 1Ki 5:4 · 1Chr 17:1 · 2Chr 14:6 · Ps 18:1 · +3 more

2the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but God’s ark dwells within curtains.”Cross-references: Ex 26:1 · Ex 40:21 · 2Sam 5:11 · 2Sam 6:17 · 2Sam 7:17 · 2Sam 12:1 · +9 more

3Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart, for Yahweh is with you.”Cross-references: 1Sam 10:7 · 1Sam 16:7 · 1Ki 8:17 · 2Ki 4:27 · 1Chr 22:7 · 1Chr 28:2 · +3 more

4That same night, Yahweh’s word came to Nathan, saying,Cross-references: Num 12:6 · 1Chr 17:3 · Amos 3:7

5“Go and tell my servant David, ‘Yahweh says, “Should you build me a house for me to dwell in?Cross-references: 1Ki 5:3 · 1Ki 8:16 · 1Chr 17:4 · 1Chr 22:7 · 1Chr 23:3

6For I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought the children of Israel up out of Egypt, even to this day, but have moved around in a tent and in a tabernacle.Cross-references: Ex 33:14 · Ex 40:18 · Ex 40:34 · Lev 26:23 · Lev 26:27 · Num 10:33 · +7 more

7In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel, did I say a word to anyone from 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?’”’Cross-references: Lev 26:11 · Deut 23:14 · 2Sam 5:2 · 1Chr 17:6 · Ps 78:71 · Isa 40:11 · +11 more

8Now therefore tell my servant David this: ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people, over Israel.Cross-references: 1Sam 9:16 · 1Sam 10:1 · 1Sam 16:11 · 2Sam 6:21 · 2Sam 12:7 · 1Chr 17:7 · +1 more

9I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.Cross-references: Gen 12:2 · 1Sam 2:8 · 1Sam 18:14 · 1Sam 31:6 · 2Sam 5:10 · 2Sam 8:6 · +10 more

10I 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. The children of wickedness will not afflict them any more, as at the first,Cross-references: Ex 1:13 · Ex 1:22 · Ex 15:17 · Judg 4:3 · Judg 6:2 · 1Sam 13:17 · +14 more

11and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. Moreover Yahweh tells you that Yahweh will make you a house.Cross-references: Ex 1:21 · Judg 2:14 · 1Sam 12:9 · 1Sam 25:28 · 2Sam 7:1 · 2Sam 7:27 · +11 more

12When your days are fulfilled and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom.Cross-references: Gen 15:4 · Deut 31:16 · 1Ki 1:21 · 1Ki 2:1 · 1Ki 8:20 · 1Chr 17:11 · +11 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

13He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.Cross-references: 2Sam 7:16 · 1Ki 5:5 · 1Ki 6:12 · 1Ki 8:19 · 1Chr 17:11 · 1Chr 22:9 · +13 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

14I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the children of men;Cross-references: Deut 8:5 · 1Chr 17:13 · 1Chr 28:6 · Job 5:17 · Ps 89:20 · Ps 94:12 · +7 more

15but my loving kindness will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.Cross-references: 1Sam 15:23 · 1Sam 15:28 · 1Sam 16:14 · 1Sam 19:24 · 2Sam 7:14 · 2Sam 7:16 · +8 more

16Your house and your kingdom will be made sure forever before you. Your throne will be established forever.”’”Cross-references: Gen 49:10 · 2Sam 7:13 · 2Ki 19:34 · 1Chr 17:13 · Ps 45:6 · Ps 72:5 · +10 more

17Nathan spoke to David all these words, and according to all this vision.Cross-references: 1Chr 17:15 · Acts 20:20 · Acts 20:27 · 1Cor 15:3

18Then 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 this far?Cross-references: Gen 32:10 · Ex 3:11 · Judg 6:15 · 1Sam 9:21 · 1Sam 15:17 · 1Sam 18:18 · +4 more

19This 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 among men, Lord Yahweh!Cross-references: Num 16:9 · Num 16:13 · 2Sam 7:11 · 2Sam 12:8 · 1Chr 17:17 · Ps 36:7 · +3 more

20What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, Lord Yahweh.Cross-references: Gen 18:19 · 1Sam 16:7 · Ps 139:1 · John 2:25 · John 21:17 · Heb 4:13 · +1 more

21For your word’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it.Cross-references: Num 23:19 · Deut 9:5 · Josh 23:14 · Ps 115:1 · Ps 138:2 · Matt 11:26 · +8 more

22Therefore you are great, Yahweh God. For there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.Cross-references: Ex 10:2 · Ex 15:11 · Deut 3:24 · Deut 4:35 · Deut 32:39 · 1Sam 2:2 · +20 more

23What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make himself a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeemed to yourself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods?Cross-references: Ex 3:7 · Ex 9:16 · Ex 12:12 · Ex 19:5 · Num 14:13 · Deut 4:7 · +22 more

24You established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.Cross-references: Gen 17:7 · Ex 6:7 · Ex 15:2 · Deut 26:18 · Deut 27:9 · 2Sam 7:23 · +11 more

25“Now, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken.Cross-references: Gen 32:12 · Ps 119:49 · Jer 11:4 · Ezek 36:37

26Let your name be magnified forever, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies is God over Israel; and the house of your servant David will be established before you.’Cross-references: Gen 17:18 · 1Chr 17:23 · 1Chr 29:10 · Ps 72:18 · Ps 89:36 · Ps 115:1 · +2 more

27For you, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house.’ Therefore your servant has found in his heart to pray this prayer to you.Cross-references: Ruth 4:4 · 1Sam 9:15 · 1Chr 17:25 · Ps 10:17 · Ps 40:6

28“Now, O Lord Yahweh, you are God, and your words are truth, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.Cross-references: Ex 34:6 · Num 23:19 · John 17:17 · Titus 1:2

29Now therefore, let it please you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Lord Yahweh, have spoken it. Let the house of your servant be blessed forever with your blessing.”Cross-references: Num 6:24 · 2Sam 22:51 · 1Chr 17:27 · Ps 115:12