5. for I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up Israel unto this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another.
6. Wherever I have walked with all Israel, did I speak a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me a house of cedars?
7. Now, therefore, thus shalt thou say unto my slave David, Thus hath the Lord of the hosts said, I took thee from the sheepfold, from following the sheep that thou should be ruler over my people Israel;
8. and I have been with thee wherever thou hast walked and have cut off all thy enemies from before thee and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.
9. Likewise I have ordained a place for my people Israel and have planted him that he dwell by himself and no longer be moved; neither shall the sons of iniquity waste them any more, as before,
10. since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I have humbled all thy enemies and announce unto thee that the Lord will build thee a house.
11. And it shall come to pass, when thy days are fulfilled to go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
12. He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne eternally.
13. I will be his father, and he shall be my son; and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee;