12 When your time comes and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up after you your descendant, who will come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.(A) 13 He is the one who will build a house for my name,(B) and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.(C) 14 I will be his father, and he will be my son.(D) When he does wrong, I will discipline him with a rod of men and blows from mortals. 15 But my faithful love will never leave him(E) as it did when I removed it from Saul, whom I removed from before you.(F) 16 Your house and kingdom will endure before me[a] forever,(G) and your throne will be established forever.’”(H)

17 Nathan reported all these words and this entire vision to David.

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  1. 7:16 Some Hb mss, LXX, Syr; other Hb mss read you

13 Yet I will not tear the entire kingdom away from him. I will give one tribe to your son(A) for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem that I chose.”

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