^{1 Ref} It happened, when David lived 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 Yahweh [dwells] under curtains.

^{2 Ref} Nathan said to David, Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you.

^{3 Ref} It happened the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,

^{4 Ref} Go and tell David my servant, Thus says Yahweh, You shall not build me a house to dwell in:

^{5 Ref} for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel, to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from [one] tent [to another].

^{6 Ref} In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, spoke I a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, Why have you not built me a house of cedar?

^{7 Ref} Now therefore thus shall you tell my servant David, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel:

^{8 Ref} and I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.

^{9 Ref} I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the first,

^{10 Ref} and [as] from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that Yahweh will build you a house.

^{11 Ref} It shall happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who shall be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.

^{12 Ref} He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.

^{13 Ref} I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before you;

^{14 Ref} but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever; and his throne shall be established forever.

^{15 Ref} According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to David.