My servant Moses [is] not so; he is faithful in all My house.

Go, and say to My servant David, Thus says the Lord, You shall not build Me a house to dwell in.

And now thus shall you say to My servant David: Thus says the Lord Almighty, I took you from the sheepfold, that you should be a prince over My people, over Israel.

And I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and I will plant them, and they shall dwell by themselves, and shall be distressed no longer; and the son of iniquity shall afflict them no longer, as he [has done] from the beginning,

And it shall come to pass when your days have been fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, that I will raise up your seed after you, even from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.

And Nathan said to David, You are the man that has done this! Thus says the Lord God of Israel: I anointed you to be king over Israel, and I rescued you out the hand of Saul;

and I gave you the house of your master, and the wives of your master into your bosom, and I gave to you the house of Israel and Judah; and if that had been [too] little, I would have given you even more.

The Lord lives, and blessed [be] my guardian, and my God, my strong keeper, [and He] shall be exalted.

and bringing me out from my enemies; and You shall set me on high from among those that rise up against me; You shall deliver me from the violent man.

He magnifies the salvation of His king, and works mercy for His anointed, even for David and for his seed forever.

From You [come] wealth and glory. You, O Lord, rule over all, the Lord of all dominion, and in Your hand [is] strength and rule; and [You are] almighty with Your hand to increase and establish all things.

But who am I, and what [is] my people, that we have been able to be thus forward [in offering] to You? For all things [are] Yours, and of Your own have we given You,

He chose David also His servant, and took him up from the flocks of sheep.

So he tended them in the innocence of his heart; and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

I will sing to the Lord who has dealt bountifully with me, and I will sing psalms to the name of the Lord Most High.

Return to your rest, O my soul; for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.

Render a recompense to Your servant; [so] shall I live, and keep Your words.

Therefore I thought it necessary to urge the brothers, that they should go before [me] to you, and should arrange in advance your generous gift, which you had previously promised, [that] this would be ready, thus as a blessing and not as grudgingly given.

in everything being made rich to all generosity, which produces thanksgiving through us to God.

that the Lord may confirm His word which He spoke, saying, If your children shall take heed to their way to walk before Me in truth with all their heart, [I promise you], saying, there shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel.

And if you will walk before Me as David your father walked, in holiness of heart and uprightness, and so as to do according to all that I commanded him, and shall keep My ordinances and My commandments,

Forasmuch as David did that which was right in the sight of the Lord; he turned not from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life.

O Lord, remember, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in Your eyes. And Hezekiah wept with a great weeping.

He that walks blameless, and works righteousness, who speaks truth in his heart.

And the Lord shall recompense me according to my righteousness; even according to the purity of my hands shall He recompense me.

For all His judgments were before me, and His ordinances departed not from me.

And the Lord shall recompense me according to my righteousness, and according to the purity of my hands before His eyes.

Moreover thus said the king, Blessed [be] the Lord God of Israel, who has this day appointed one of my seed sitting on my throne, and my eyes have seen it.