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1 Chronicles 17 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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The Ark of God Inhabits a Tent

(2Sa 7:1–29 )

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Now it happened when David inhabited his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I inhabit a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh is under tent curtains.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:2 - So Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you.”

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Now it happened in the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:4 - “Go and say to David My servant, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “You shall not build Me a house to inhabit;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:5 - for I have not inhabited a house since the day that I brought up Israel to this day, but I have been from tent to tent and from one [fn]dwelling place to another.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:6 - “Wherever I have gone about with all Israel, did I speak a word with even one of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd My people, saying, ‘Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?’”’

David’s House Will Be Established Forever

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:7 - “So now, thus shall you say to My servant David, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, “I Myself took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:8 - “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 men who are on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:9 - “And I will appoint a place for My people Israel and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place and not be disturbed again; and the [fn]unrighteous will not waste them anymore as formerly,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:10 - even from the day that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies.

And I tell you that Yahweh will build a house for you.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:11 - “And it will be that when your days are fulfilled to go to be with your fathers, I will raise up one of your seed after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:12 - “He shall build for Me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:13 - “I will be a father to him and he will be a son to Me; and I will not remove My lovingkindness from him, as I removed it from him who was before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:14 - “But I will cause him to stand in My house and in My kingdom forever, and his throne shall be established forever.”’”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:15 - According to all these words and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.

David Magnifies Yahweh’s Name

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Then David the king went in and sat before Yahweh and said, “Who am I, O Yahweh God, and what is my house that You have brought me this far?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:17 - “And this was a small thing in Your eyes, O God; but You have spoken of the house of Your slave concerning the distant future, and have regarded me according to the standard of a man of high degree, O Yahweh God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:18 - “Again what more can David say to You concerning the glory bestowed on Your slave? You know Your slave.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:19 - “O Yahweh, for the sake of Your slave, and according to Your own heart, You have done all this greatness, to make known all these great things.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:20 - “O Yahweh, there is none like You, and there is no God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:21 - “And what one nation in the earth is like Your people Israel, whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people, to make You a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed out of Egypt?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:22 - “Yet You gave Your people Israel to be Your own people forever, and You, O Yahweh, have become their God.

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“So now, O Yahweh, let the word that You have spoken concerning Your slave and concerning his house [fn]endure forever, and do as You have spoken,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:24 - that Your name [fn]endure and be magnified forever, by saying, ‘Yahweh of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel; and the house of David Your [fn]servant is established before You.’

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:25 - “For You, O my God, have revealed in the hearing of Your slave that You will build for him a house; therefore Your slave has found courage to pray before You.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:26 - “So now, O Yahweh, You are God, and You have [fn]promised this good thing to Your slave.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:27 - “So now, You have been pleased to bless the house of Your slave, that it may be forever before You. For You, O Yahweh, have blessed, and it is blessed forever.”
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LSB Footnotes
Or tabernacle, cf. 2 Sam 7:6
Lit sons of wickedness
Or be true
Or be true
Or slave, cf. 17:23; see Foreword, “The Terminology of Slave”
Lit spoken
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