⁴ Now it happened in the same night, that the word of Yahweh came to Nathan, saying, ⁵ “Go and say to My servant David, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “^(A)Are you the one who would build Me a house to inhabit? ⁶ For ^(B)I have not inhabited a house since the day I brought up the sons of Israel from Egypt, even to this day; but I have been going about ^(C)in a tent, even in a ^[a]tabernacle. ^7 (D)Wherever I have gone about with all the sons of Israel, did I speak a word with one of the tribes of Israel, ^(E)which I commanded to shepherd My people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?’”’

David’s House Will Be Established Forever

⁸ So now, thus you shall say to My servant David, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, “^(F)I Myself took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, ^(G)to be ruler over My people Israel. ^9 (H)And I have been with you wherever you have gone and ^(I)have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a great name, like the name of the great men who are on the earth. ¹⁰ And I will appoint a place for My people Israel and ^(J)will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place and not be disturbed again; ^(K)and the ^[b]unrighteous will not afflict them any more as formerly, ¹¹ even ^(L)from the day that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel; and ^(M)I will give you rest from all your enemies. Yahweh also declares to you that ^(N)Yahweh will make a house for you. ^12 (O)When your days are fulfilled and you ^(P)lie down with your fathers, ^(Q)I will raise up one of your seed after you, who will come forth from ^[c]your own body, and I will establish his kingdom. ^13 (R)He shall build a house for My name, and ^(S)I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. ^14 (T)I will be a father to him and he will be a son to Me; ^(U)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, ^(V)as I removed it from Saul, whom I removed from before you. ^16 (W)And your house and your kingdom shall ^[d]endure before ^[e]Me forever; your throne shall be established forever.”’” ¹⁷ According to all these words and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.