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I Chronicles Chapter 17

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After David's death the people mourned for seven days, weeping and crying out to God for his return. The priests and Levites were appointed to lead the mourning, and the king's son was buried in the city. The chapter emphasizes God's faithfulness and the covenant's endurance amid grief.

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(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.
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II Samuel 7:1II Samuel 7:2II Samuel 7:3II Samuel 7:4II Samuel 7:5II Samuel 7:6II Samuel 7:7II Samuel 7:8II Samuel 7:9II Samuel 7:10II Samuel 7:11II Samuel 7:12

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Joshua 3:6I Samuel 4:4II Samuel 7:2II Samuel 15:24Exodus 40:20Joshua 6:6

(2) Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God is with thee.
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I Chronicles 22:7I Chronicles 28:2Joshua 9:14I Samuel 16:7Psalms 20:4I Corinthians 13:9I Samuel 10:7II Samuel 7:3Zechariah 8:23Luke 1:28

(3) And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
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Numbers 12:6II Kings 20:1II Kings 20:2II Kings 20:3II Kings 20:4II Kings 20:5Isaiah 30:21Amos 3:7

(4) Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:
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Isaiah 55:8Isaiah 55:9Romans 11:33Romans 11:34I Chronicles 22:7I Chronicles 22:8I Chronicles 28:2I Chronicles 28:3II Samuel 7:4II Samuel 7:5I Kings 8:19II Chronicles 6:8

(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.
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II Samuel 7:6I Kings 8:27II Chronicles 2:6II Chronicles 6:18Isaiah 66:1Isaiah 66:2Acts 7:44Acts 7:45Acts 7:46Acts 7:47Acts 7:48Acts 7:49

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Genesis 31:33Numbers 19:14II Samuel 7:6Exodus 40:19Numbers 3:25Numbers 9:15

(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?
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Exodus 33:14Exodus 33:15Exodus 40:35Exodus 40:36Exodus 40:37Exodus 40:38Leviticus 26:11Leviticus 26:12Numbers 10:33Numbers 10:34Numbers 10:35Numbers 10:36

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I Samuel 1:8II Samuel 7:7

(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:
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Exodus 3:1Exodus 3:2Exodus 3:3Exodus 3:4Exodus 3:5Exodus 3:6Exodus 3:7Exodus 3:8Exodus 3:9Exodus 3:10I Samuel 16:11I Samuel 16:12

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II Samuel 7:8Obadiah 1:12Exodus 22:1John 10:12Zechariah 1:3

(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.
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I Chronicles 17:2Genesis 28:15I Samuel 18:14I Samuel 18:28II Samuel 7:9II Samuel 8:6II Samuel 8:8II Samuel 8:14Psalms 46:7Psalms 46:11I Samuel 26:10I Samuel 31:1

(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,
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Jeremiah 31:3Jeremiah 31:4Jeremiah 31:5Jeremiah 31:6Jeremiah 31:7Jeremiah 31:8Jeremiah 31:9Jeremiah 31:10Jeremiah 31:11Jeremiah 31:12Ezekiel 34:13Psalms 44:2

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Jeremiah 44:9

(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.
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Judges 2:14Judges 2:15Judges 2:16Judges 2:17Judges 2:18Judges 3:8Judges 4:3Judges 6:3Judges 6:4Judges 6:5Judges 6:6I Samuel 13:5

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II Samuel 7:11

(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.
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I Chronicles 29:15I Chronicles 29:28Acts 13:36Genesis 15:15Deuteronomy 31:16I Kings 1:21I Kings 2:10Acts 2:29I Chronicles 28:5II Samuel 7:12II Samuel 7:13II Samuel 12:24

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Genesis 17:7Genesis 26:4Jeremiah 33:26

(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:
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II Samuel 7:14Psalms 89:26Psalms 89:27Psalms 89:28Psalms 89:29Psalms 89:30Psalms 89:31Psalms 89:32Psalms 89:33Psalms 89:34Psalms 89:35Psalms 89:36

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James 2:13

(14) But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be established for evermore.
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Psalms 2:6Psalms 72:17Psalms 89:36Luke 1:32Luke 1:33Hebrews 3:6

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II Samuel 7:16Revelation 4:6Ezekiel 43:14

(15) According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
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II Samuel 7:17Jeremiah 23:28Acts 20:27

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Ezekiel 43:3

(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?
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II Samuel 7:18II Kings 19:14Genesis 32:10Psalms 144:3Ephesians 3:8Judges 6:15I Samuel 9:21Genesis 48:15Genesis 48:16I Samuel 7:12Acts 26:22II Corinthians 1:10

(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.
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I Chronicles 17:7I Chronicles 17:8II Samuel 7:19II Samuel 12:8II Kings 3:18Isaiah 49:6I Chronicles 17:11I Chronicles 17:12I Chronicles 17:13I Chronicles 17:14I Chronicles 17:15Ephesians 3:20

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Ezekiel 16:55

(18) What can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.
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I Samuel 2:30II Samuel 7:20II Samuel 7:21II Samuel 7:22II Samuel 7:23II Samuel 7:24I Samuel 16:7Psalms 139:1John 21:17Revelation 2:23

(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.
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Isaiah 37:35Isaiah 42:1Isaiah 49:3Isaiah 49:5Isaiah 49:6Daniel 9:17Matthew 11:26Ephesians 1:9Ephesians 1:10Ephesians 1:11Ephesians 3:11I Chronicles 29:11

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I Kings 11:13

(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.
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Exodus 15:11Exodus 18:11Deuteronomy 3:24Deuteronomy 33:26Psalms 86:8Psalms 89:6Psalms 89:8Isaiah 40:18Isaiah 40:25Jeremiah 10:6Jeremiah 10:7Ephesians 3:20

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Leviticus 23:38Jeremiah 36:21

(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?
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Deuteronomy 4:7Deuteronomy 4:32Deuteronomy 4:33Deuteronomy 4:34Deuteronomy 33:26Deuteronomy 33:27Deuteronomy 33:28Deuteronomy 33:29Psalms 147:20Exodus 3:7Exodus 3:8Exodus 19:4

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Ruth 4:4Jeremiah 5:15Exodus 13:13Exodus 34:20Leviticus 25:49Ruth 4:6

(22) For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.
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Genesis 17:7Exodus 19:5Exodus 19:6Deuteronomy 7:6Deuteronomy 7:7Deuteronomy 7:8Deuteronomy 26:18Deuteronomy 26:19I Samuel 12:22Jeremiah 31:31Jeremiah 31:32Jeremiah 31:33

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I Samuel 15:19Isaiah 57:9

(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.
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Genesis 32:12II Samuel 7:25II Samuel 7:26II Samuel 7:27II Samuel 7:28II Samuel 7:29Psalms 119:49Jeremiah 11:5Luke 1:38

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Jeremiah 16:3Jeremiah 27:19Numbers 30:12Ruth 4:7II Samuel 7:25I Kings 5:8

(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.
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II Chronicles 6:33Psalms 21:13Psalms 72:19Matthew 6:9Matthew 6:13John 12:28John 17:1Philippians 2:11I Peter 4:11Jeremiah 31:1Hebrews 8:10Hebrews 11:16

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II Samuel 7:16II Samuel 7:26Zechariah 1:3

(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.
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I Samuel 9:15Psalms 10:17Ezekiel 36:37I John 5:14I John 5:15

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II Kings 8:12I Kings 11:38Exodus 15:26

(26) And now, LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:
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Exodus 34:6Exodus 34:7Titus 1:2Hebrews 6:18

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Romans 11:22

(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.
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Genesis 27:33Psalms 72:17Romans 11:29Ephesians 1:3

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Genesis 12:3II Samuel 7:29Psalms 115:12

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