WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:01.360 Chapter 17. 00:02.580 --> 00:07.260 Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the 00:07.260 --> 00:11.640 prophet, I dwell in a house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the Lord 00:11.640 --> 00:12.740 remaineth under curtains. 00:13.020 --> 00:17.860 Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart, for God is with thee. 00:18.040 --> 00:21.560 And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, 00:21.860 --> 00:27.660 saying, Go and tell David my servant, thus saith the Lord, Thou shalt not build 00:27.660 --> 00:28.980 me an house to dwell in. 00:29.560 --> 00:33.540 For I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought up Israel unto this 00:33.540 --> 00:38.580 day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another. 00:39.580 --> 00:44.720 Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of 00:44.720 --> 00:50.460 Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me 00:50.460 --> 00:51.560 an house of cedars? 00:52.240 --> 00:57.960 Now therefore, thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the Lord of 00:57.960 --> 01:03.140 hosts, I took thee from the sheep coat, even from following the sheep, 01:03.560 --> 01:06.540 that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel. 01:07.360 --> 01:12.200 And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all 01:12.200 --> 01:16.560 thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of 01:16.560 --> 01:18.280 the great men that are in the earth. 01:19.020 --> 01:25.180 Also, I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they 01:25.180 --> 01:30.120 shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more, neither shall the children 01:30.120 --> 01:33.160 of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning. 01:34.220 --> 01:39.420 And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, moreover, 01:39.780 --> 01:41.900 I will subdue all thine enemies. 01:42.600 --> 01:48.360 Furthermore, I tell thee that the Lord will build thee an house, and it shall 01:48.360 --> 01:53.700 come to pass, when thy days be expired, that thou must go to be with thy fathers, 01:54.400 --> 02:00.020 that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons, and I will 02:00.020 --> 02:01.260 establish his kingdom. 02:02.080 --> 02:06.480 He shall build me an house, and I will establish his throne forever. 02:07.240 --> 02:13.240 I will be his father, and he shall be my son, and I will not take my mercy away 02:13.240 --> 02:18.600 from him, as I took it away from him that was before thee, but I will settle him in 02:18.600 --> 02:23.620 mine house and in my kingdom forever, and his throne shall be established 02:23.620 --> 02:24.660 forevermore. 02:25.140 --> 02:29.160 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did 02:29.160 --> 02:30.700 Nathan speak unto David. 02:31.540 --> 02:37.800 And David the king came, and sat before the Lord, and said, Who am I, O Lord God? 02:38.720 --> 02:42.020 And what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto? 02:43.320 --> 02:46.200 And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God. 02:47.260 --> 02:50.540 For thou hast also spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, 02:51.140 --> 02:54.440 and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, 02:54.760 --> 02:55.480 O Lord God. 02:56.840 --> 03:00.160 What can David speak more to thee for the honor of thy servant? 03:01.480 --> 03:02.980 For thou knowest thy servant. 03:04.060 --> 03:08.040 O Lord, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own heart, 03:08.040 --> 03:12.120 hast thou done all this greatness in making known all these great things. 03:13.680 --> 03:17.660 O Lord, there is none like thee, neither is there any god beside thee, 03:17.720 --> 03:19.660 according to all that we have heard with our ears. 03:20.780 --> 03:25.640 And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem 03:25.640 --> 03:29.180 to be his own people, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, 03:29.620 --> 03:33.700 by driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou hast redeemed out of 03:33.700 --> 03:33.940 Egypt. 03:33.940 --> 03:40.100 For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people forever, and thou, 03:40.420 --> 03:41.560 Lord, becamest their God. 03:42.500 --> 03:47.320 Therefore now, Lord, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant 03:47.320 --> 03:51.860 and concerning his house be established forever, and do as thou hast said. 03:52.940 --> 03:58.040 Let it even be established that thy name may be magnified forever, saying, 03:58.780 --> 04:02.940 The Lord of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel. 04:03.560 --> 04:06.900 And let the house of David thy servant be established before thee. 04:07.960 --> 04:11.900 For thou, O my God, hast told thy servant that thou wilt build him a house. 04:12.820 --> 04:15.800 Therefore thy servant hath found in his heart to pray before thee. 04:16.820 --> 04:21.680 And now, Lord, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant. 04:22.740 --> 04:27.760 Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be 04:27.760 --> 04:28.760 before thee forever. 04:28.760 --> 04:33.340 For thou blessest, O Lord, and it shall be blessed forever.