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 17:1  Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that
David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of
cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD [remaineth]
under curtains.
 17:2  Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that [is] in thine
heart; for God [is] with thee.
 17:3  And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God
came to Nathan, saying,
 17:4  Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou
shalt not build me an house to dwell in:
 17:5  For I have not dwelt in an 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].
 17:6  Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a
word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed
my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?
 17:7  Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David,
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote,
[even] from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler
over my people Israel:
 17:8  And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast
walked, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee,
and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that
[are] in the earth.
 17:9  Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and
will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall
be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness
waste them any more, as at the beginning,
 17:10  And since the time that I commanded judges [to be] over
my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies.
Furthermore I tell thee that the LORD will build thee an house.
 17:11  And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired
that thou must 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.
 17:12  He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his
throne for ever.
 17:13  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:
 17:14  But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom
for ever: and his throne shall be established for evermore.
 17:15  According to all these words, and according to all this
vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
 17:16  And David the king came and sat before the LORD, and
said, Who [am] I, O LORD God, and what [is] mine house, that
thou hast brought me hitherto?
 17:17  And [yet] this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God;
for thou hast [also] spoken of thy servant's house for a great
while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of
a man of high degree, O LORD God.
 17:18  What can David [speak] more to thee for the honour of
thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.
 17:19  O LORD, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine
own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known
all [these] great things.
 17:20  O LORD, [there is] none like thee, neither [is there
any] God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with
our ears.
 17:21  And what one nation in the earth [is] like thy people
Israel, whom God went to redeem [to be] his own people, to make
thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out
nations from before thy people, whom thou hast redeemed out of
Egypt?
 17:22  For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people
for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.
 17:23  Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast
spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be
established for ever, and do as thou hast said.
 17:24  Let it even be established, that thy name may be
magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts [is] the God of
Israel, [even] a God to Israel: and [let] the house of David
thy servant [be] established before thee.
 17:25  For thou, O my God, hast told thy servant that thou
wilt build him an house: therefore thy servant hath found [in
his heart] to pray before thee.
 17:26  And now, LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this
goodness unto thy servant:
 17:27  Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of
thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever: for thou
blessest, O LORD, and [it shall be] blessed for ever.
 18:1  Now after this it came to pass, that David smote the
Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and her towns out
of the hand of the Philistines.
 18:2  And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became David's
servants, [and] brought gifts.
 18:3  And David smote Hadarezer king of Zobah unto Hamath, as
he went to stablish his dominion by the river Euphrates.
 18:4  And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven
thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David also
hocked all the chariot [horses], but reserved of them an
hundred chariots.
 18:5  And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer
king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty
thousand men.
 18:6  Then David put [garrisons] in Syriadamascus; and the
Syrians became David's servants, [and] brought gifts. Thus the
LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
 18:7  And David took the shields of gold that were on the
servants of Hadarezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
 18:8  Likewise from Tibhath, and from Chun, cities of
Hadarezer, brought David very much brass, wherewith Solomon
made the brazen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.
 18:9  Now when Tou king of Hamath heard how David had smitten
all the host of Hadarezer king of Zobah;
 18:10  He sent Hadoram his son to king David, to inquire of
his welfare, and to congratulate him, because he had fought
against Hadarezer, and smitten him; (for Hadarezer had war with
Tou;) and [with him] all manner of vessels of gold and silver
and brass.
 18:11  Them also king David dedicated unto the LORD, with the
silver and the gold that he brought from all [these] nations;
from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and
from the Philistines, and from Amalek.
 18:12  Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the
Edomites in the valley of salt eighteen thousand.
 18:13  And he put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites
became David's servants. Thus the LORD preserved David
whithersoever he went.
 18:14  So David reigned over all Israel, and executed judgment
and justice among all his people.
 18:15  And Joab the son of Zeruiah [was] over the host; and
Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, recorder.
 18:16  And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of
Abiathar, [were] the priests; and Shavsha was scribe;
 18:17  And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was] over the
Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David [were]
chief about the king.
 19:1  Now it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of
the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead.
 19:2  And David said, I will show kindness unto Hanun the son
of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me. And David
sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the
servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon
to Hanun, to comfort him.
 19:3  But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun,
Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath
sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee
for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?
 19:4  Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them,
and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks,
and sent them away.
 19:5  Then there went [certain], and told David how the men
were served. And he sent to meet them: for the men were greatly
ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards
be grown, and [then] return.
 19:6  And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made
themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon
sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and
horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syriamaachah, and out
of Zobah.
 19:7  So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the
king of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before
Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together
from their cities, and came to battle.
 19:8  And when David heard [of it], he sent Joab, and all the
host of the mighty men.
 19:9  And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle
in array before the gate of the city: and the kings that were
come [were] by themselves in the field.
 19:10  Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him
before and behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel,
and put [them] in array against the Syrians.
 19:11  And the rest of the people he delivered unto the hand
of Abishai his brother, and they set [themselves] in array
against the children of Ammon.
 19:12  And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then
thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong
for thee, then I will help thee.
 19:13  Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves
valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our God: and
let the LORD do [that which is] good in his sight.
 19:14  So Joab and the people that [were] with him drew nigh
before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him.
 19:15  And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians
were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and
entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
 19:16  And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the
worse before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the
Syrians that [were] beyond the river: and Shophach the captain
of the host of Hadarezer [went] before them.
 19:17  And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and
passed over Jordan, and came upon them, and set [the battle] in
array against them. So when David had put the battle in array
against the Syrians, they fought with him.
 19:18  But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of
the Syrians seven thousand [men which fought in] chariots, and
forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the
host.
 19:19  And when the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were
put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with David, and
became his servants: neither would the Syrians help the
children of Ammon any more.
 20:1  And it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at
the time that kings go out [to battle], Joab led forth the
power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of
Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at
Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it.
 20:2  And David took the crown of their king from off his
head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and [there were]
precious stones in it; and it was set upon David's head: and he
brought also exceeding much spoil out of the city.
 20:3  And he brought out the people that [were] in it, and cut
[them] with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even
so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon.
And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
 20:4  And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at
Gezer with the Philistines; at which time Sibbechai the
Hushathite slew Sippai, [that was] of the children of the
giant: and they were subdued.
 20:5  And there was war again with the Philistines; and
Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the
Gittite, whose spear staff [was] like a weaver's beam.
 20:6  And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of
[great] stature, whose fingers and toes [were] four and twenty,
six [on each hand], and six [on each foot]: and he also was the
son of the giant.
 20:7  But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea
David's brother slew him.
 20:8  These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by
the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
 21:1  And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to
number Israel.
 21:2  And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people,
Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the
number of them to me, that I may know [it].
 21:3  And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred
times so many more as they [be]: but, my lord the king, [are]
they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require
this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
 21:4  Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab.
Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and
came to Jerusalem.
 21:5  And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto
David. And all [they of] Israel were a thousand thousand and an
hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah [was] four
hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.
 21:6  But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the
king's word was abominable to Joab.
 21:7  And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he
smote Israel.
 21:8  And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because
I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the
iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
 21:9  And the LORD spake unto Gad, David's seer, saying,
 21:10  Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer
thee three [things]: choose thee one of them, that I may do
[it] unto thee.
 21:11  So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the
LORD, Choose thee
 21:12  Either three years' famine; or three months to be
destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine
enemies overtaketh [thee]; or else three days the sword of the
LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the
LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now
therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him
that sent me.
 21:13  And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me
fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great [are] his
mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.
 21:14  So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell
of Israel seventy thousand men.
 21:15  And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and
as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of
the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough,
stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the
threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
 21:16  And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the
LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn
sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and
the elders [of Israel, who were] clothed in sackcloth, fell
upon their faces.
 21:17  And David said unto God, [Is it] not I [that] commanded
the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and
done evil indeed; but [as for] these sheep, what have they
done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and
on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should
be plagued.
 21:18  Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to
David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the
LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
 21:19  And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake
in the name of the LORD.
 21:20  And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four
sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
 21:21  And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David,
and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David
with [his] face to the ground.
 21:22  Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of [this]
threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the
LORD: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the
plague may be stayed from the people.
 21:23  And Ornan said unto David, Take [it] to thee, and let
my lord the king do [that which is] good in his eyes: lo, I
give [thee] the oxen [also] for burnt offerings, and the
threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat
offering; I give it all.
 21:24  And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily
buy it for the full price: for I will not take [that] which
[is] thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without
cost.
 21:25  So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred
shekels of gold by weight.
 21:26  And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and
offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon
the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the
altar of burnt offering.
 21:27  And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his
sword again into the sheath thereof.
 21:28  At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered
him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he
sacrificed there.
 21:29  For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the
wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, [were] at that
season in the high place at Gibeon.
 21:30  But David could not go before it to inquire of God: for
he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.
 22:1  Then David said, This [is] the house of the LORD God,
and this [is] the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.
 22:2  And David commanded to gather together the strangers
that [were] in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew
wrought stones to build the house of God.
 22:3  And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for
the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in
abundance without weight;
 22:4  Also cedar trees in abundance: for the Zidonians and
they of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David.
 22:5  And David said, Solomon my son [is] young and tender,
and the house [that is] to be builded for the LORD [must be]
exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all
countries: I will [therefore] now make preparation for it. So
David prepared abundantly before his death.
 22:6  Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to
build an house for the LORD God of Israel.
 22:7  And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in
my mind to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God:
 22:8  But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Thou hast
shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not
build an house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood
upon the earth in my sight.
 22:9  Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man
of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round
about: for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and
quietness unto Israel in his days.
 22:10  He shall build an house for my name; and he shall be my
son, and I [will be] his father; and I will establish the
throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.
 22:11  Now, my son, the LORD be with thee; and prosper thou,
and build the house of the LORD thy God, as he hath said of
thee.
 22:12  Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and
give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the
law of the LORD thy God.
 22:13  Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil
the statutes and judgments which the LORD charged Moses with
concerning Israel: be strong, and of good courage; dread not,
nor be dismayed.
 22:14  Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the
house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a
thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron
without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone
have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.
 22:15  Moreover [there are] workmen with thee in abundance,
hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of
cunning men for every manner of work.
 22:16  Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron,
[there is] no number. Arise [therefore], and be doing, and the
LORD be with thee.
 22:17  David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help
Solomon his son, [saying],
 22:18  [Is] not the LORD your God with you? and hath he [not]
given you rest on every side? for he hath given the inhabitants
of the land into mine hand; and the land is subdued before the
LORD, and before his people.
 22:19  Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your
God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD
God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy
vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name
of the LORD.
 23:1  So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon
his son king over Israel.
 23:2  And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with
the priests and the Levites.
 23:3  Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty
years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man,
was thirty and eight thousand.
 23:4  Of which, twenty and four thousand [were] to set forward
the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand [were]
officers and judges:
 23:5  Moreover four thousand [were] porters; and four thousand
praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, [said
David], to praise [therewith].
 23:6  And David divided them into courses among the sons of
Levi, [namely], Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
 23:7  Of the Gershonites [were], Laadan, and Shimei.
 23:8  The sons of Laadan; the chief [was] Jehiel, and Zetham,
and Joel, three.
 23:9  The sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran,
three. These [were] the chief of the fathers of Laadan.
 23:10  And the sons of Shimei [were], Jahath, Zina, and Jeush,
and Beriah. These four [were] the sons of Shimei.
 23:11  And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but
Jeush and Beriah had not many sons; therefore they were in one
reckoning, according to [their] father's house.
 23:12  The sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel,
four.
 23:13  The sons of Amram; Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was
separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and
his sons for ever, to burn incense before the LORD, to minister
unto him, and to bless in his name for ever.
 23:14  Now [concerning] Moses the man of God, his sons were
named of the tribe of Levi.
 23:15  The sons of Moses [were], Gershom, and Eliezer.
 23:16  Of the sons of Gershom, Shebuel [was] the chief.
 23:17  And the sons of Eliezer [were], Rehabiah the chief. And
Eliezer had none other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very
many.
 23:18  Of the sons of Izhar; Shelomith the chief.
 23:19  Of the sons of Hebron; Jeriah the first, Amariah the
second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
 23:20  Of the sons of Uzziel; Micah the first, and Jesiah the
second.
 23:21  The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. The sons of
Mahli; Eleazar, and Kish.
 23:22  And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters: and
their brethren the sons of Kish took them.
 23:23  The sons of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth,
three.
 23:24  These [were] the sons of Levi after the house of their
fathers; [even] the chief of the fathers, as they were counted
by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the
service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years
and upward.
 23:25  For David said, The LORD God of Israel hath given rest
unto his people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever:
 23:26  And also unto the Levites; they shall no [more] carry
the tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for the service thereof.
 23:27  For by the last words of David the Levites [were]
numbered from twenty years old and above:
 23:28  Because their office [was] to wait on the sons of Aaron
for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in
the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the
work of the service of the house of God;
 23:29  Both for the showbread, and for the fine flour for meat
offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for [that which is
baked in] the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all
manner of measure and size;
 23:30  And to stand every morning to thank and praise the
LORD, and likewise at even;
 23:31  And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD in the
sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number,
according to the order commanded unto them, continually before
the LORD:
 23:32  And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle
of the congregation, and the charge of the holy [place], and
the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service
of the house of the LORD.