²⁵ For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a house: therefore has your servant found [in his heart] to pray before you.

¹⁵ Now Yahweh had revealed to Samuel a day before Saul came, saying,

¹⁷ Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

³⁷ Thus says the Lord Yahweh: For this, moreover, will I be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.

¹⁴ This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

¹⁵ And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.