God’s Covenant with David
(2 Samuel 7:1–17)
After David had settled into his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under a tent.” 1Ch 15:11Ch 17:52Ch 6:7-92Sa 6:17Dan 4:29-30Dan 4:4Exo 40:19-21Hag 1:4
And Nathan replied to David, “Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you.” 1Ch 28:21Co 13:91Ch 22:71Sa 10:71Sa 16:72Sa 7:3Jos 9:14Luk 1:28
But that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying, Amo 3:7Isa 30:212Ki 20:1-5Num 12:6 “Go and tell My servant David that this is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build Me a house in which to dwell. 1Ch 28:2-31Ki 8:192Sa 7:4-5Isa 55:8-91Ch 22:7-82Ch 6:8-9Rom 11:33-34 For I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought Israel up out of Egypt 1until this day, but I have moved from tent to tent and dwelling to dwelling. 2Sa 7:61Ki 8:16Isa 66:1-22Ch 2:6Exo 40:2-31Ki 8:271Ki 8:42Ch 6:18 In all My journeys with all the Israelites, have I ever asked any of the leaders 2I appointed to shepherd My people, ‘Why haven’t you built Me a house of cedar?’ 2Sa 7:71Ch 11:2Num 10:33-361Sa 12:112Co 6:16Act 13:20Deu 23:14Exo 33:14-15
Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler over My people Israel. 2Sa 6:21Exo 3:1-10Psa 78:70-711Sa 16:11-121Sa 17:152Sa 7:8Amo 7:14-15Luk 5:10 I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make for you a name like the greatest in the land. 1Sa 18:141Ch 17:2Psa 113:7-81Sa 18:282Sa 7:9Gen 28:15Psa 46:7Psa 71:21
And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning Ezk 36:14-15Rev 21:4Amo 9:15Eph 5:6Exo 1:13-14Exo 2:23Ezk 28:4Psa 44:2 and have done since the day I appointed judges over My people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. 2Sa 7:11Psa 18:40-50Psa 89:231Co 15:25Exo 1:21Jdg 2:14-18Jdg 4:3Psa 21:8-9
Moreover, I declare to you that the LORD will build a house for you. And when your days are fulfilled and you go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom. Psa 132:112Sa 7:12-13Jer 23:5-6Rom 1:3-41Ch 28:51Ch 29:151Ch 29:281Ki 1:21 He will build a house for Me, and I will establish his throne forever. Dan 2:44Isa 9:71Ki 5:5Act 7:47-48Rev 11:151Ch 22:9-101Ch 28:6-10Psa 89:36-37 I will be his Father, and he will be My son. And I will never remove My loving devotion from him as I removed it from your predecessor. Heb 1:5Psa 2:71Ch 10:141Ch 17:121Sa 15:282Co 6:18Isa 55:3Psa 2:12 But I will set him over My house and My kingdom forever, and his throne will be established forever.” Psa 89:36Luk 1:32-33Psa 72:17Heb 3:6Psa 2:6
So Nathan relayed to David all the words of this entire vision. 2Sa 7:17Act 20:27Jer 23:28
David’s Prayer of Thanksgiving
(2 Samuel 7:18–29)
Then King David went in, sat before the LORD, and said, “Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my house, that You have brought me this far? 2Sa 7:18Eph 3:8Gen 32:10Psa 144:31Sa 7:121Sa 9:212Co 1:102Ki 19:14 And as if this was a small thing in Your eyes, O God, You have spoken about the future of the house of Your servant and have regarded me as a man of great distinction, 3 O LORD God. Isa 49:6Php 2:8-111Ch 17:11-151Ch 17:7-8Eph 3:20Psa 78:70-72Psa 89:19-371Ki 3:13 What more can David say to You for so honoring Your servant? For You know Your servant, 1Sa 16:71Sa 2:302Sa 7:20-24Jhn 21:17Psa 139:1Rev 2:23 O LORD. 4 For the sake of Your servant and according to Your own heart, You have accomplished this great thing and revealed all Your greatness. Isa 37:35Eph 1:9-11Isa 49:5-61Ch 29:11-122Sa 7:21Dan 9:17Eph 3:11Isa 42:1
O LORD, there is none like You, and there is no God but You, according to everything we have heard with our own ears. Isa 44:6Eph 3:20Exo 15:11Jer 10:6-71Sa 2:2Deu 3:24Deu 33:26Deu 4:39 And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself? You made a name for Yourself through great and awesome wonders by driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed from Egypt. Ezk 20:9-10Deu 15:15Deu 33:26-29Deu 4:32-34Deu 4:7Deu 7:1-2Exo 19:4-6Exo 3:7-8 For You have made Your people Israel Your very own forever, and You, O LORD, have become their God. Exo 19:5-61Pe 2:91Sa 12:22Deu 26:18-19Deu 7:6-8Gen 17:7Jer 31:31-34Rom 11:1-12
And now, O LORD, let the word You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house be established forever. Do as You have promised, Jer 11:5Psa 119:492Sa 7:25-29Gen 32:12Luk 1:38 so that Your name will be established and magnified forever when it is said, ‘The LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, is God over Israel.’ And may the house of Your servant David be established before You. 1Pe 4:112Ch 6:33Heb 11:16Heb 8:10Jer 31:1Jhn 12:28Jhn 17:1Mat 6:13 For You, my God, have revealed to Your servant that You will build a house for him. Therefore Your servant has found the courage to pray before You. 1Jn 5:14-151Sa 9:15Ezk 36:37Psa 10:17
And now, O LORD, You are God! And You have promised this goodness to Your servant. Heb 6:18Tit 1:2Exo 34:6-7 So now You have been pleased to bless the house of Your servant, that it may continue forever before You. For You, O LORD, have blessed it, and it will be blessed forever.” Eph 1:3Rom 11:29Psa 72:17Gen 27:33