2 Samuel 7 (NET)

2 Samuel 7:1¹The king settled into his palace, for the Lord gave him relief from all his enemies on all sides.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 16:7Luke 1:74-751 Kgs 5:42 Chr 14:61 Chr 17:1-27Dan 4:29-30Josh 23:1Ps 18:1Josh 21:44

2 Samuel 7:2²The king said to Nathan the prophet, “Look! I am living in a palace made from cedar, while the ark of God sits in the middle of a tent.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 16:12 Sam 5:112 Sam 12:1Acts 7:46Hag 1:4John 2:171 Chr 29:29Exod 26:1-141 Chr 14:12 Chr 1:4

2 Samuel 7:3³Nathan replied to the king, “You should go and do whatever you have in mind, for the Lord is with you.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 22:71 Kgs 8:17-181 Chr 28:21 Sam 16:72 Kgs 4:271 John 2:271 Sam 10:7Ps 20:4Ps 37:4

2 Samuel 7:4⁴That night the Lord’ s message came to Nathan,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 17:3Num 12:6Amos 3:7

2 Samuel 7:5⁵“Go, tell my servant David, ‘This is what the Lord has said: Do you really intend to build a house for me to live in?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 17:41 Chr 22:7-81 Chr 23:3-321 Kgs 5:3-41 Kgs 8:16-19

2 Samuel 7:6⁶I have not lived in a house from the time I brought the Israelites up from Egypt to the present day. Instead, I was traveling with them and living in a tent.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 8:16Exod 40:18-19Josh 18:1Exod 40:34-381 Chr 17:5-62 Cor 6:16Acts 7:44Deut 23:14Exod 33:14-15Lev 26:23-24

2 Samuel 7:7⁷Wherever I moved among all the Israelites, I did not say to any of their leaders whom I appointed to care for my people Israel, “Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?”’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 17:62 Sam 5:2Lev 26:11-12John 21:15-17Acts 20:28Acts 21:28Deut 23:14Ezek 34:15Ezek 34:2Ezek 34:23

2 Samuel 7:8⁸“So now, say this to my servant David, ‘This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies has said: I took you from the pasture and from your work as a shepherd to make you leader of my people Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 16:11-122 Sam 6:21Ps 78:70-711 Chr 17:72 Sam 12:71 Sam 10:11 Sam 9:16

2 Samuel 7:9⁹I was with you wherever you went, and I defeated all your enemies before you. Now I will make you as famous as the great men of the earth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 5:101 Chr 17:81 Sam 18:142 Sam 8:6Ps 18:37-422 Sam 22:34-38Ps 113:7-82 Sam 8:14Gen 12:22 Sam 22:30

2 Samuel 7:10¹⁰I will establish a place for my people Israel and settle them there; they will live there and not be disturbed anymore. Violent men will not oppress them again, as they did in the beginningCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 9:151 Chr 17:9Jer 24:6Isa 60:18Ezek 37:25-27Ezek 28:24Ps 89:22-23Ps 80:8Exod 15:17Jer 18:9

2 Samuel 7:11¹¹and during the time when I appointed judges to lead my people Israel. Instead, I will give you relief from all your enemies. The Lord declares to you that he himself will build a dynastic house for you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 7:272 Sam 7:11 Chr 17:101 Sam 12:9-11Judg 2:14-16Ps 89:3-41 Kgs 11:381 Chr 22:101 Kgs 2:241 Sam 25:28

2 Samuel 7:12¹²When the time comes for you to die, I will raise up your descendant, one of your own sons, to succeed you, and I will establish his kingdom.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 8:20Acts 2:301 Kgs 2:1Acts 13:361 Chr 17:11Ps 132:11-12Deut 31:16Matt 22:42-441 Cor 15:511 Kgs 1:21

2 Samuel 7:13¹³He will build a house for my name, and I will make his dynasty permanent.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 1:31-331 Kgs 8:192 Sam 7:161 Chr 22:9-101 Kgs 5:5Ps 89:4Isa 9:71 Kgs 6:12Ps 89:36-371 Chr 17:11-12

2 Samuel 7:14¹⁴I will become his father and he will become my son. When he sins, I will correct him with the rod of men and with wounds inflicted by human beings.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 1:5Rev 3:191 Chr 17:131 Chr 28:6Deut 8:51 Cor 11:32Heb 12:5-11Jer 30:11Ps 89:20-37Ps 94:12-13

2 Samuel 7:15¹⁵But my loyal love will not be removed from him as I removed it from Saul, whom I removed from before you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 15:231 Sam 15:28Ps 89:281 Kgs 11:131 Sam 16:142 Sam 7:14Isa 9:72 Sam 7:16Acts 13:34-37Isa 37:35

2 Samuel 7:16¹⁶Your house and your kingdom will stand before me permanently; your dynasty will be permanent.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 1:32-33Ps 89:36-372 Sam 7:13Isa 9:7Dan 2:44Dan 7:14Gen 49:10Ps 45:61 Chr 17:13-14Rev 11:15

2 Samuel 7:17¹⁷Nathan told David all these words that were revealed to him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 17:151 Cor 15:3Acts 20:20Acts 20:27

2 Samuel 7:18¹⁸King David went in, sat before the Lord, and said, “Who am I, O Sovereign Lord, and what is my family, that you should have brought me to this point?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 8:41 Chr 17:161 Sam 18:18Gen 32:10Exod 3:111 Sam 15:17Eph 3:8Judg 6:151 Sam 9:21Isa 37:14

2 Samuel 7:19¹⁹And you didn’t stop there, O Lord God! You have also spoken about the future of your servant’s family. Is this your usual way of dealing with men, O Sovereign Lord?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 55:8-91 Chr 17:172 Sam 7:11-16Ps 36:72 Sam 12:8Eph 2:7Eph 3:19-20Num 16:13Num 16:9

2 Samuel 7:20²⁰What more can David say to you? You have given your servant special recognition, O Sovereign Lord!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 16:7John 21:17Ps 139:1Gen 18:19Heb 4:13John 2:25Rev 2:23

2 Samuel 7:21²¹For the sake of your promise and according to your purpose you have done this great thing in order to reveal it to your servant.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 3:11Ps 115:1Ps 138:21 Cor 1:1Eph 1:9Luke 12:32Deut 9:5Josh 23:14-15Luke 1:54-55Luke 1:72

2 Samuel 7:22²²Therefore you are great, O Sovereign Lord, for there is none like you. There is no God besides you! What we have heard is true.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 86:10Exod 15:11Ps 86:81 Chr 16:25Mic 7:18Isa 45:5Deut 3:241 Sam 2:2Ps 89:6Ps 89:8

2 Samuel 7:23²³Who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation on the earth? Their God went to claim a nation for himself and to make a name for himself! You did great and awesome acts for your land, before your people whom you delivered for yourself from the Egyptian empire and its gods.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 10:21Deut 9:26Deut 15:15Deut 33:29Neh 1:10Ps 111:9Ps 147:20Deut 4:32-38Ezek 20:9Ps 40:5

2 Samuel 7:24²⁴You made Israel your very own people for all time. You, O Lord, became their God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 26:181 Pet 2:10Gen 17:7Isa 12:2Jer 31:33John 1:12Ps 48:141 Chr 17:222 Sam 7:23Deut 27:9

2 Samuel 7:25²⁵So now, O Lord God, make this promise you have made about your servant and his family a permanent reality. Do as you promised,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 119:49Ezek 36:37Gen 32:12Jer 11:4-5

2 Samuel 7:26²⁶so you may gain lasting fame, as people say, ‘The Lord of Heaven’s Armies is God over Israel!’ The dynasty of your servant David will be established before you,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 17:23-24Matt 6:9Ps 72:18-191 Chr 29:10-13Gen 17:18John 12:28Ps 115:1Ps 89:36

2 Samuel 7:27²⁷for you, O Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, have told your servant, ‘I will build you a dynastic house.’ That is why your servant has had the courage to pray this prayer to you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 17:25-26Ps 10:17Ruth 4:41 Sam 9:15Ps 40:6

2 Samuel 7:28²⁸Now, O Sovereign Lord, you are the true God. May your words prove to be true! You have made this good promise to your servant.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 17:17Exod 34:6Num 23:19Titus 1:2

2 Samuel 7:29²⁹Now be willing to bless your servant’s dynasty so that it may stand permanently before you, for you, O Sovereign Lord, have spoken. By your blessing may your servant’s dynasty be blessed from now on into the future!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 17:27Num 6:24-26Ps 115:12-152 Sam 22:51