Nathan answered, "Do whatever you have in mind, because the LORD is with you."

"Go and tell my servant David that I say to him, 'You are not the one to build a temple for me to live in.

Nathan answered, "Do whatever you have in mind, because God is with you."

"Go and tell my servant David that I say to him, 'You are not the one to build a temple for me to live in.

To that Isaiah replied, "Listen, now, descendants of King David. It's bad enough for you to wear out the patience of people---do you have to wear out God's patience too?

Well then, the Lord himself will give you a sign: a young woman who is pregnant will have a son and will name him 'Immanuel.'

And now, LORD God of Israel, I pray that you will also keep the other promise you made to my father when you told him that there would always be one of his descendants ruling as king of Israel, provided they obeyed you as carefully as he did.

If you will serve me in honesty and integrity, as your father David did, and if you obey my laws and do everything I have commanded you,

I will keep the promise I made to your father David when I told him that Israel would always be ruled by his descendants.

However, for the sake of your father David I will not do this in your lifetime, but during the reign of your son.

And I will not take the whole kingdom away from him; instead, I will leave him one tribe for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have made my own."

But for David's sake the LORD his God gave Abijah a son to rule after him in Jerusalem and to keep Jerusalem secure.

In the eighth year that Josiah was king, while he was still very young, he began to worship the God of his ancestor King David. Four years later he began to destroy the pagan places of worship, the symbols of the goddess Asherah, and all the other idols.

You said, "I have made a covenant with the man I chose; I have promised my servant David,

'A descendant of yours will always be king; I will preserve your dynasty forever.' "

'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' He is the God of the living, not of the dead."

Then Isaiah sent a message telling King Hezekiah that in answer to the king's prayer

The oppressed look to him and are glad; they will never be disappointed.

The helpless call to him, and he answers; he saves them from all their troubles.

But the angel said to him, "Don't be afraid, Zechariah! God has heard your prayer, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son. You are to name him John.

We have courage in God's presence, because we are sure that he hears us if we ask him for anything that is according to his will.

He hears us whenever we ask him; and since we know this is true, we know also that he gives us what we ask from him.

Hear my prayer, LORD, and listen to my cry; come to my aid when I weep. Like all my ancestors I am only your guest for a little while.

You know how troubled I am; you have kept a record of my tears. Aren't they listed in your book?

He heals the broken-hearted and bandages their wounds.

But God, who encourages the downhearted, encouraged us with the coming of Titus.

because the Lamb, who is in the center of the throne, will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of life-giving water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."

The length of our lives is decided beforehand--- the number of months we will live. You have settled it, and it can't be changed.

How painful it is to the LORD when one of his people dies!

and said, 'Don't be afraid, Paul! You must stand before the Emperor. And God in his goodness to you has spared the lives of all those who are sailing with you.'