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11 even (A)from the day that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel; and (B)I will give you rest from all your enemies. Yahweh also declares to you that (C)Yahweh will make a house for you. 12 (D)When your days are fulfilled and you (E)lie down with your fathers, (F)I will raise up one of your seed after you, who will come forth from [a]your own body, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 (G)He shall build a house for My name, and (H)I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 14 (I)I will be a father to him and he will be a son to Me; (J)when he commits iniquity, I will reprove him with the rod of men and the strikes from the sons of men, 15 but My lovingkindness shall not be removed from him, (K)as I removed it from Saul, whom I removed from before you. 16 (L)And your house and your kingdom shall [b]endure before [c]Me forever; your throne shall be established forever.”’”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 7:12 Lit your bowels
  2. 2 Samuel 7:16 Or remain true
  3. 2 Samuel 7:16 As in Gr and some ancient mss; M.T. you

17 And this was a small thing in Your eyes, O God; but You have spoken of the house of Your slave concerning the distant future, and have regarded me according to the standard of a man of high degree, O Yahweh God.

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