5. Go and tell my slave David, Thus hath the Lord said, Shalt thou build me a house for me to dwell in?
6. For I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the sons of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.
7. In all the places in which I have walked with all the sons of Israel did I speak a word in any of the tribes of Israel, unto whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why did ye not build me a house of cedar?
8. Now, therefore, so shalt thou say unto my slave David, Thus hath the Lord of the hosts said, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people, over Israel;
9. and I have been with thee wherever thou didst walk and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth.
10. Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, that they may dwell in their place and never again be removed; neither shall the sons of iniquity afflict them any more as before,
11. since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. And I will cause thee to rest from all thy enemies. Likewise, the Lord makes thee to know that he will make thee a house.
12. And when thy days are fulfilled and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
13. He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
14. I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the sons of men;
15. but my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I took away from before thee.
16. And thy house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee; thy throne shall be established for ever.