1Now when David was living in his house, he said to the prophet Nathan: “Behold, I live in a house of cedar. But the ark of the covenant of the Lord is under tent skins.”stylus1 Chronicles 15:1, 1 Chronicles 17:5, 2 Chronicles 6:7, 2 Chronicles 6:9, 1 Chronicles 15:12And Nathan said to David: “Do all that is in your heart. For God is with you.”stylus1 Chronicles 28:2, 1 Corinthians 13:9, 1 Chronicles 28:2, 1 Corinthians 13:9, Joshua 9:143And yet, that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying:stylus2 Kings 20:1, 2 Kings 20:5, Numbers 12:6, Amos 3:7, Isaiah 30:214“Go, and speak to my servant David: Thus says the Lord: You shall not build a house for me as a dwelling place.stylus1 Chronicles 28:2, 1 Chronicles 28:3, 1 Chronicles 28:2, 1 Chronicles 28:3, Romans 11:335For I have not stayed in a house from the time when I led out Israel, even to this day. Instead, I have been continually changing places, in a tabernacle and tent,stylus2 Samuel 7:6, 2 Samuel 7:6, 1 Kings 8:16, Exodus 40:2, Exodus 40:36dwelling with all of Israel. When did I ever speak to any one at all, among the judges of Israel whom I placed in charge so that they might pasture my people, saying: ‘Why have you not built a house of cedar for me?’stylus2 Samuel 7:7, 2 Samuel 7:7, Revelation 2:1, Matthew 2:6, Numbers 10:337And so, now you shall say this to my servant David: Thus says the Lord of hosts: I took you when you were following the flock in the pastures, so that you would be the leader of my people Israel.stylus2 Samuel 6:21, 2 Samuel 6:21, Exodus 3:1, Exodus 3:10, Exodus 3:18And I have been with you wherever you have gone. And I have slain all your enemies before you, and I have made a name for you like one of the great ones who are celebrated upon the earth.stylus1 Samuel 18:14, 1 Chronicles 17:2, 1 Samuel 18:14, 1 Chronicles 17:2, Psalms 46:79And I have given a place to my people Israel. They shall be planted, and they shall live in it, and they shall no longer be moved. Neither shall the sons of iniquity wear them away, as in the beginning,stylusExodus 1:13, Exodus 1:14, Ephesians 5:6, Exodus 2:23, Ezekiel 36:1410from the days when I gave judges to my people Israel, and I humbled all your enemies. Therefore, I announce to you that the Lord will build a house for you.stylus2 Samuel 7:11, 2 Samuel 7:11, Judges 2:14, Judges 2:18, Psalms 18:4011And when you will have completed your days, so that you go to your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall be from your sons. And I will establish his kingdom.stylusPsalms 132:11, Psalms 132:11, 1 Chronicles 29:15, 2 Samuel 7:12, 2 Samuel 7:1312He shall build a house for me, and I will make firm his throne, even unto eternity.stylus1 Kings 5:5, Isaiah 9:7, Daniel 2:44, 1 Kings 5:5, Isaiah 9:713I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. And I will not take away my mercy from him, as I took it away from the one who was before you.stylusHebrews 1:5, Hebrews 1:5, Psalms 2:12, 1 Chronicles 17:12, 1 Samuel 15:2814And I will station him in my house and in my kingdom, even forever. And his throne will be very firm, in perpetuity.”stylusPsalms 89:36, Psalms 89:36, Luke 1:32, Luke 1:33, Psalms 72:1715According to all these words, and according to this entire vision, so did Nathan speak to David.stylusActs 20:27, 2 Samuel 7:17, Jeremiah 23:28, Acts 20:27, 2 Samuel 7:1716And when king David had departed, and had sat down before the Lord, he said: “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that you would grant such things to me?stylusGenesis 32:10, 2 Samuel 7:18, Genesis 32:10, 2 Samuel 7:18, Ephesians 3:817But even this has seemed little in your sight, and therefore you have also spoken about the house of your servant even for the future. And you have made me a spectacle above all men, O Lord God.stylusPhilippians 2:8, Philippians 2:11, 1 Chronicles 17:7, 1 Chronicles 17:8, 1 Chronicles 17:1118What more can David add, since you have so glorified your servant, and have known him?stylusRevelation 2:23, 1 Samuel 16:7, 1 Samuel 2:30, 2 Samuel 7:20, 2 Samuel 7:2419O Lord, because of your servant, in accord with your own heart, you have brought about all this magnificence, and you have willed all these great things to be known.stylusIsaiah 37:35, Isaiah 37:35, Isaiah 49:3, Isaiah 49:5, Isaiah 49:620O Lord, there is no one like you. And there is no other God apart from you, out of all whom we have heard about with our ears.stylusIsaiah 44:6, Isaiah 44:6, Jeremiah 10:6, Jeremiah 10:7, Ephesians 3:2021For what other single nation upon earth is like your people Israel, to whom God reached out, so that he might free them, and might make a people for himself, and by his greatness and terribleness cast out the nations before the face of those whom he had freed from Egypt?stylusEzekiel 20:9, Ezekiel 20:10, Ezekiel 20:9, Ezekiel 20:10, Deuteronomy 15:1522And you have set your people Israel to be your people, even unto eternity. And you, O Lord, have become their God.stylusExodus 19:5, Exodus 19:6, Exodus 19:5, Exodus 19:6, 1 Peter 2:923Now therefore, O Lord, let the word that you have spoken to your servant, and over his house, be confirmed in perpetuity, and do just as you have spoken.stylusJeremiah 11:5, Psalms 119:49, Luke 1:38, Jeremiah 11:5, Psalms 119:4924And may your name remain and be magnified even for all time. And let it be said: ‘The Lord of hosts is the God of Israel. And the house of his servant David remains forever before him.’stylusJohn 17:1, 2 Chronicles 6:33, Psalms 90:17, Hebrews 8:10, Matthew 6:1325For you, O Lord my God, have revealed to the ear of your servant that you will build a house for him. And therefore your servant has found faith so that he might pray before you.stylusPsalms 10:17, 1 John 5:14, 1 John 5:15, Ezekiel 36:37, 1 Samuel 9:1526Now then, O Lord, you are God. And you have spoken to your servant such great benefits.stylusHebrews 6:18, Exodus 34:6, Exodus 34:7, Titus 1:2, Hebrews 6:1827And you have begun to bless the house of your servant, so that it may be always before you. For since it is you who is blessing, O Lord, it shall be blessed forever.”stylusEphesians 1:3, Ephesians 1:3, Romans 11:29, Romans 11:29, Psalms 72:17