1 Chronicles 17
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David's purposes; God's gracious promises
Verse 1
WEB It happened, when David lived in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh is under curtains.”
KJV Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains.
TSK as David: 2sa 7:1,2-17, 2ch 6:7-9, da 4:4,29,30; Nathan: 1ch 29:29, 2sa 12:1,25, 1ki 1:8,23,44; I dwell: 1ch 14:1, jer 22:15, hag 1:4,9; the ark: ps 132:5, ac 7:46; under curtains: 1ch 17:5, 1ch 15:1, 1ch 16:1, ex 40:19-21, 2sa 6:17, 2ch 1:4
Verse 3
WEB It happened the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
KJV And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
TSK word: nu 12:6, 2ki 20:1-5, isa 30:21, am 3:7
Verse 4
WEB “Go and tell David my servant, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “You shall not build me a house to dwell in;
KJV Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:
TSK tell: isa 55:8,9, ro 11:33,34; Thou shalt not: 1ch 22:7,8, 1ch 28:2,3, 2sa 7:4,5, 1ki 8:19, 2ch 6:8,9
Verse 5
WEB for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel, to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tent to another.
KJV For I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought up Israel unto this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another.
TSK dwelt: 2sa 7:6, 1ki 8:27, 2ch 2:6, 2ch 6:18, isa 66:1,2, ac 7:44-50; from tent to tent: ex 40:2,3, 2sa 6:17, 1ki 8:4,16
Verse 6
WEB In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’”’
KJV Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?
TSK walked: ex 33:14,14,15, ex 40:35-38, le 26:11,12, nu 10:33-36, de 23:14, 2co 6:16, re 2:1; the judges: jud 2:16-18, 1sa 12:11, 2sa 7:7; tribes: ac 13:20; feed: 1ch 11:2, ps 78:71,72, jer 23:4, eze 34:2, mic 5:4, mt 2:6
Verse 7
WEB “Now therefore, you shall tell my servant David, ‘Thus says Yahweh of Armies, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel.
KJV 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:
TSK I took thee: ex 3:1-10, 1sa 16:11,12, 1sa 17:15, 2sa 7:8, ps 78:70,71, am 7:14,15, mt 4:18-22, lu 5:10; ruler: 2sa 6:21, mt 2:6
Verse 8
WEB I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.
KJV 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.
TSK I have been: 1ch 17:2, ge 28:15, 1sa 18:14,28, 2sa 7:9, 2sa 8:6,8,14, ps 46:7,11; have cut off: 1sa 26:10, 1sa 31:1-6, 2sa 22:1,38-41, ps 18:1; made thee: 1ch 17:17, 2sa 8:13, ezr 4:20, ps 71:21, ps 75:7, ps 113:7,8, lu 1:52
Verse 9
WEB I 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; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the first,
KJV 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,
TSK I will: jer 31:3-12, eze 34:13; plant: ps 44:2, ps 92:13, isa 61:3, jer 24:6, jer 32:41; and shall be: eze 28:4, eze 36:14,15, eze 37:25, am 9:15, re 21:4; the children: ps 89:22, eph 2:2,3, eph 5:6; waste: isa 49:17, isa 60:18; as at the: ex 1:13,14, ex 2:23
Verse 10
WEB and from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that Yahweh will build you a house.
KJV 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 an house.
TSK And since: jud 2:14-18, jud 3:8, jud 4:3, jud 6:3-6, 1sa 13:5,6,19,20; Moreover: ps 18:40-50, ps 21:8,9, ps 89:23, ps 110:1, 1co 15:25; the Lord: ex 1:21, 2sa 7:11, ps 127:1
Verse 11
WEB It shall happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who shall be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
KJV 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.
TSK when thy: 1ch 29:15,28, ac 13:36; go to be: ge 15:15, de 31:16, 1ki 1:21, 1ki 2:10, ac 2:29; I will raise: 1ch 28:5, 2sa 7:12,13, 2sa 12:24,25, 1ki 8:20, ps 132:11, jer 23:5,6, ro 1:3,4
Verse 12
WEB He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.
KJV He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever.
TSK He shall: 1ch 22:9,10, 1ch 28:6-10, 1ki 5:5, 2ch 3:1-4, ezr 5:11, zec 6:12,13, joh 2:19-21, ac 7:47,48, col 2:9; I will: ps 89:4,29,36,37, isa 9:7, da 2:44, 1co 15:25, re 11:15
Verse 13
WEB I will be his father, and he shall be my son. I will not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before you;
KJV I 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:
TSK I will be: 2sa 7:14, ps 89:26-28,29-37, isa 55:3, heb 1:5; my son: ps 2:7,12, lu 9:35, joh 3:35; I will not: 2sa 7:15,16, 1ki 11:12,13,36; as I took: 1ch 17:12, 1ch 10:14, 1sa 15:28
Verse 14
WEB but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever. His throne shall be established forever.”’”
KJV But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be established for evermore.
TSK in mine: ps 2:6, ps 72:17, ps 89:36, lu 1:32,33, heb 3:6
Verse 16
WEB Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Yahweh God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?
KJV And David the king came and sat before the LORD, and said, Who am I, O LORD God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?
TSK sat before: 2sa 7:18, 2ki 19:14; Who am I: ge 32:10, ps 144:3, eph 3:8; what is: jud 6:15, 1sa 9:21; that thou hast: ge 48:15,16, 1sa 7:12, ac 26:22, 2co 1:10
Verse 17
WEB This was a small thing in your eyes, God; but you have spoken of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have respected me according to the estate of a man of high degree, Yahweh God.
KJV 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.
TSK a small thing: 1ch 17:7,8, 2sa 7:19, 2sa 12:8, 2ki 3:18, isa 49:6; thou hast: 1ch 17:11-15, eph 3:20; hast regarded: 1ch 17:8, 1ki 3:13, ps 78:70-72, ps 89:19-37, php 2:8-11
Verse 18
WEB What can David say yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant? For you know your servant.
KJV What can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.
TSK the honour: 1sa 2:30, 2sa 7:20-24; thou knowest: 1sa 16:7, ps 139:1, joh 21:17, re 2:23
Verse 19
WEB Yahweh, for your servant’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make known all these great things.
KJV O 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.
TSK thy servants: isa 37:35, isa 42:1, isa 49:3,5,6, da 9:17; according: mt 11:26, eph 1:9-11, eph 3:11; great things: 1ch 29:11,12, ps 111:3,6
Verse 20
WEB Yahweh, there is none like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
KJV O LORD, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
TSK none: ex 15:11, ex 18:11, de 3:24, de 33:26, ps 86:8, ps 89:6,8, isa 40:18,25, jer 10:6,7, eph 3:20; beside thee: de 4:35,39, 1sa 2:2, isa 43:10, isa 44:6, isa 45:5,22; according: ps 44:1, ps 78:3,4, isa 63:12
Verse 21
WEB What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeem out of Egypt?
KJV 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?
TSK what one: de 4:7,32-34, de 33:26-29, ps 147:20; redeem: ex 3:7,8, ex 19:4-6, de 15:15, ps 77:15, ps 107:2, ps 111:9, isa 63:9, tit 2:14; make thee: ne 9:10, isa 48:9, isa 63:12, eze 20:9,10; greatness: de 4:34, ps 65:5, ps 66:3-7, ps 114:3-8, isa 64:3; by driving: de 7:1,2, jos 10:42, jos 21:43-45, jos 24:11,12, ps 44:2,3
Verse 22
WEB For your people Israel you made your own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.
KJV For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.
TSK thy people: ge 17:7, ex 19:5,6, de 7:6-8, de 26:18,19, 1sa 12:22, jer 31:31-34, zec 13:9, ro 9:4-6,25,26, ro 11:1,2-12, 1pe 2:9
Verse 23
WEB Now, Yahweh, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, be established forever, and do as you have spoken.
KJV Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as thou hast said.
TSK let the thing: ge 32:12, 2sa 7:25-29, ps 119:49, jer 11:5, lu 1:38
Verse 24
WEB Let your name be established and magnified forever, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel. The house of David your servant is established before you.’
KJV Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever, 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.
TSK that thy name: 2ch 6:33, ps 21:13, ps 72:19, mt 6:9,13, joh 12:28, joh 17:1, php 2:11, 1pe 4:11; a God: jer 31:1, heb 8:10, heb 11:16, re 21:3; and let: ps 90:17
Verse 25
WEB For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a house. Therefore your servant has found courage to pray before you.
KJV For thou, O my God, hast told thy servant that thou wilt build him an house: therefore thy servant hath found in his heart to pray before thee.
TSK told thy servant: 1sa 9:15; found: ps 10:17, eze 36:37, 1jo 5:14,15
Verse 27
WEB Now it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Yahweh, have blessed, and it is blessed forever.”
KJV Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever: for thou blessest, O LORD, and it shall be blessed for ever.