1 Chronicles 17: Understanding God’s Plans Over Our Own

1 Chronicles 17: Understanding God’s Plans Over Our Own

1 Chronicles 17:1 Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, 1 dwell in a house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains.

1 Chronicles 17:2 Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God is with thee.

1 Chronicles 17:4 Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me a house to dwell in

1 Chronicles 17:5 For I have not dwelt in a house since the day that 1 brought up Israel unto this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another.

1 Chronicles 17:6 Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me a house of cedars?

1 Chronicles 17:7 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:

1 Chronicles 17:8 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.

1 Chronicles 17:9 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,

1 Chronicles 17:10 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 a house.

1 Chronicles 17:11 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.

1 Chronicles 17:12 He shall build me an house, and I will establish his throne forever.

1 Chronicles 17:13 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:

1 Chronicles 17:14 But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom forever: and his throne shall be established for evermore.

1 Chronicles 17:15 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.

1 Chronicles 17:17 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.

1 Chronicles 17:18 What can David speak more to thee for the honor of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.

1 Chronicles 17:19 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.

1 Chronicles 17:20 LORD, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

1 Chronicles 17:21 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?

1 Chronicles 17:22 For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people forever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.

1 Chronicles 17:23 Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established forever, and do as thou hast said.

1 Chronicles 17:24 Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified forever, 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.

1 Chronicles 17:26 And now, LORD, thou art Godf and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:

1 Chronicles 17:27 Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee forever: for thou blessest, O LORD and it shall be blessed forever.