{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/web/1-chronicles/17","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T10:03:15.700Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"1 Chronicles","bookSlug":"1-chronicles","chapter":17,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":16,"nextChapter":18,"totalChapters":29,"totalVerses":27},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"It happened, when David lived in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, |Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh is under curtains.|"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Nathan said to David, |Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you.|"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"It happened the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"|Go and tell David my servant, 'Thus says Yahweh, |You shall not build me a house to dwell in;"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel, to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tent to another."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, 'Why have you not built me a house of cedar?'|'"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"|Now therefore, you shall tell my servant David, 'Thus says Yahweh of Armies, |I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the first,"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"and from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that Yahweh will build you a house."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"It shall happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who shall be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"I will be his father, and he shall be my son. I will not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before you;"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever. His throne shall be established forever.|'|"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, |Who am I, Yahweh God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"This was a small thing in your eyes, God; but you have spoken of your servant's house for a great while to come, and have respected me according to the estate of a man of high degree, Yahweh God."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"What can David say yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant? For you know your servant."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Yahweh, for your servant's sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make known all these great things."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Yahweh, there is none like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeem out of Egypt?"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"For your people Israel you made your own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Now, Yahweh, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, be established forever, and do as you have spoken."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Let your name be established and magnified forever, saying, 'Yahweh of Armies is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel. The house of David your servant is established before you.'"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a house. Therefore your servant has found courage to pray before you."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"Now, Yahweh, you are God, and have promised this good thing to your servant."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Now it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Yahweh, have blessed, and it is blessed forever.|"}],"citation":{"inline":"1 Chronicles 17 (WEB)","markdown":"[1 Chronicles 17](https://primebible.com/web/1-chronicles/17)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/1-chronicles/17 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}