² Nathan said to David, “Do all that you have in mind, for God is with you.”

² Then King David rose to his feet and said, “Hear me, my brothers and my people. I had planned to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord, for the footstool of our God, and I made preparations for building.^(A)

⁹ For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part,

²⁸ And he came to her and said, “Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you.”^[a](A)

²³ Thus says the Lord of hosts: In those days ten men from nations of every language shall take hold of a Jew, grasping his garment and saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’ ”^(A)

⁷ David said to Solomon, “My son, I had planned to build a house to the name of the Lord my God.^(A)

³ Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that you have in mind, for the Lord is with you.”^(A)

⁷ But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him, for the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”^(A)

⁷ Now when these signs meet you, do whatever you see fit to do, for God is with you.^(A)