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And it came to pass, when David had settled 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 the Lord is under curtains of skins."
"In all the places through which I passed among all Israel, did I ever speak a word to one tribe of Israel, whom I charged to shepherd my people, saying, 'Why have you not built me a house of cedar?'"
"And now you shall say thus to my servant David: Thus says the Lord Almighty: I took you from the sheepfold, from behind the flocks, to be leader over my people Israel."
"And I was with you in all that you went, and I utterly destroyed all your enemies from before you, and I made you a name like the name of the great ones who are on the earth."
"And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and I will plant them, and they will dwell by themselves and be anxious no more; and injustice shall no longer continue to humble them, as from the beginning,"
"and from the days when I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I humbled all your enemies, and I will increase you, and the Lord will build you a house."
"And it shall be, when your days are fulfilled and you sleep with your fathers, that I will raise up your seed after you, who shall be from your belly, and I will establish his kingdom."
"And these things were a small matter before you, O God; and you have spoken concerning the house of your servant from afar, and you have looked upon me as the vision of a man, and you have exalted me, O Lord God."
"And there is no nation on the earth like your people Israel, as God led them, to redeem for himself a people, to make for himself a great and manifest name, to drive out nations from before your people whom you redeemed out of Egypt."
"For you, O Lord, have opened the ear of your servant, that you would build him a house; therefore your servant has found it in himself to pray before your face."