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II Samuel Chapter 7

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II Samuel

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In this chapter David mourns the loss of his son Absalom and the rebellion that has torn his house apart. He prays for God's mercy and receives a promise that his lineage will be preserved and a son will be born to continue his reign. The passage highlights God's faithfulness to his covenant promises despite human failure.

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(1) And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies;
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I Chronicles 17:1I Chronicles 17:2I Chronicles 17:3I Chronicles 17:4I Chronicles 17:5I Chronicles 17:6I Chronicles 17:7I Chronicles 17:8I Chronicles 17:9I Chronicles 17:10I Chronicles 17:11I Chronicles 17:12

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Joshua 21:44I Chronicles 22:9Deuteronomy 12:10Deuteronomy 25:19Joshua 23:1I Chronicles 11:8

(2) That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.
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II Samuel 12:1I Chronicles 29:29II Samuel 5:11I Chronicles 14:1Jeremiah 22:13Jeremiah 22:14Jeremiah 22:15Haggai 1:4Psalms 132:5John 2:17Acts 7:46II Samuel 6:17

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I Chronicles 17:1Genesis 6:14Exodus 40:20I Samuel 4:4I Samuel 5:8I Samuel 5:10

(3) And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thine heart; for the LORD is with thee.
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II Kings 4:27I Samuel 16:7I Kings 8:17I Kings 8:18I Chronicles 22:7I Chronicles 28:2Psalms 20:4Psalms 37:4I Samuel 10:7I John 2:27

(4) And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came unto Nathan, saying,
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Numbers 12:6I Chronicles 17:3Amos 3:7

(5) Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?
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I Kings 5:3I Kings 8:16I Kings 8:17I Kings 8:18I Kings 8:19I Chronicles 17:4I Chronicles 22:7I Chronicles 22:8I Chronicles 23:3I Chronicles 23:4I Chronicles 23:5I Chronicles 23:6

(6) Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.
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Joshua 18:1I Kings 8:16I Chronicles 17:5I Chronicles 17:6Exodus 33:14Exodus 33:15Exodus 40:35Exodus 40:36Exodus 40:37Exodus 40:38Leviticus 26:23Leviticus 26:24

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I Chronicles 17:5Genesis 31:33Numbers 3:25Numbers 9:15Exodus 33:8Exodus 40:19

(7) In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?
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Leviticus 26:11Leviticus 26:12I Chronicles 17:6II Samuel 5:2Psalms 78:71Psalms 78:72Isaiah 40:11Jeremiah 3:15Jeremiah 23:4Ezekiel 34:2Ezekiel 34:15Ezekiel 34:23

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II Chronicles 33:19I Samuel 1:8I Chronicles 17:6I Kings 22:43Malachi 1:4

(8) Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
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I Samuel 16:11I Samuel 16:12I Chronicles 17:7Psalms 78:70II Samuel 6:21II Samuel 12:7I Samuel 9:16I Samuel 10:1

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I Chronicles 17:7Exodus 22:1John 10:12Zechariah 1:3

(9) And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, 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.
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II Samuel 5:10II Samuel 8:6II Samuel 8:14II Samuel 22:30II Samuel 22:34II Samuel 22:35II Samuel 22:36II Samuel 22:37II Samuel 22:38I Samuel 18:14I Chronicles 17:8II Samuel 22:1

(10) Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,
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I Chronicles 17:9Psalms 44:4Psalms 80:8Jeremiah 18:9Jeremiah 24:6Ezekiel 37:25Ezekiel 37:26Ezekiel 37:27Amos 9:15Psalms 89:22Psalms 89:23Isaiah 60:18

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Jeremiah 44:9I Kings 2:44

(11) And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house.
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Judges 2:14Judges 2:15Judges 2:16I Samuel 12:9I Samuel 12:10I Samuel 12:11Psalms 106:42II Samuel 7:1Job 5:18Job 5:19Job 34:29Psalms 46:9

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Joshua 21:44I Chronicles 22:9I Chronicles 17:10

(12) And when thy days be 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.
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I Kings 2:1I Kings 8:20Deuteronomy 31:16I Kings 1:21Daniel 12:2Acts 13:36I Corinthians 15:51I Thessalonians 4:14Genesis 15:4I Chronicles 17:11Psalms 89:29Psalms 132:11

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

(13) He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
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I Kings 5:5I Kings 6:12I Kings 8:19I Chronicles 17:11I Chronicles 17:12I Chronicles 22:9I Chronicles 22:10I Chronicles 28:6I Chronicles 28:10Zechariah 6:13Matthew 16:18Luke 1:31

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I Kings 5:5I Chronicles 17:12Zechariah 6:13Revelation 4:6

(14) I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:
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I Chronicles 17:13I Chronicles 28:6Psalms 89:20Psalms 89:21Psalms 89:22Psalms 89:23Psalms 89:24Psalms 89:25Psalms 89:26Psalms 89:27Psalms 89:28Psalms 89:29

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Psalms 89:32Ezekiel 33:13Luke 12:48Romans 2:22

(15) But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.
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II Samuel 7:14II Samuel 7:16I Samuel 19:24Psalms 89:28Psalms 89:34Isaiah 55:3Acts 13:34Acts 13:35Acts 13:36Acts 13:37I Samuel 15:23I Samuel 15:28

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Isaiah 54:10Lamentations 4:15James 2:13

(16) And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.
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II Samuel 7:13Genesis 49:10II Kings 19:34I Chronicles 17:13I Chronicles 17:14Psalms 45:6Psalms 72:5Psalms 72:17Psalms 72:18Psalms 72:19Psalms 89:36Psalms 89:37

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I Chronicles 17:24I Kings 2:12I Kings 2:24I Kings 2:45I Chronicles 17:14Psalms 93:2

(17) According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
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I Chronicles 17:15Acts 20:20Acts 20:27I Corinthians 15:3

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Ezekiel 43:3

(18) Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he said, Who am I, O Lord GOD? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?
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I Chronicles 17:16Isaiah 37:14Genesis 32:10Exodus 3:11Judges 6:15I Samuel 9:21I Samuel 15:17I Samuel 18:18Psalms 8:4Ephesians 3:8

(19) And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord GOD?
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II Samuel 12:8Numbers 16:9Numbers 16:13II Samuel 7:11II Samuel 7:12II Samuel 7:13II Samuel 7:14II Samuel 7:15II Samuel 7:16I Chronicles 17:17Psalms 36:7Isaiah 55:8

(20) And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy servant.
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Genesis 18:19I Samuel 16:7Psalms 139:1John 2:25John 21:17Hebrews 4:13Revelation 2:23

(21) For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them.
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Numbers 23:19Deuteronomy 9:5Joshua 23:14Joshua 23:15Psalms 115:1Psalms 138:2Matthew 24:35Luke 1:54Luke 1:55Luke 1:72Matthew 11:26Luke 10:21

(22) Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for 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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Deuteronomy 3:24I Chronicles 16:25II Chronicles 2:5Psalms 48:1Psalms 86:10Psalms 96:4Psalms 135:5Psalms 145:3Ezekiel 36:22Ezekiel 36:32Exodus 15:11Deuteronomy 4:35

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Leviticus 23:38Jeremiah 36:21

(23) And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
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Deuteronomy 4:7Deuteronomy 4:8Deuteronomy 4:32Deuteronomy 4:33Deuteronomy 4:34Deuteronomy 33:29Psalms 147:20Romans 3:1Romans 3:2Exodus 3:7Exodus 3:8Exodus 19:5

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Judges 10:6Ruth 4:4Jeremiah 5:15II Kings 17:29Jeremiah 2:11Isaiah 18:2

(24) For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art become their God.
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Genesis 17:7Deuteronomy 26:18II Samuel 7:23Exodus 15:2Deuteronomy 27:9I Chronicles 17:22Psalms 48:14Isaiah 12:2Jeremiah 31:1Jeremiah 31:33Jeremiah 32:38Hosea 1:10

(25) And now, O LORD God, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, establish it for ever, and do as thou hast said.
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Genesis 32:12Psalms 119:49Jeremiah 11:4Jeremiah 11:5Ezekiel 36:37

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Jeremiah 16:3Jeremiah 27:19Numbers 30:12Ruth 4:7I Kings 5:8II Kings 22:13

(26) And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God over Israel: and let the house of thy servant David be established before thee.
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I Chronicles 17:23I Chronicles 17:24I Chronicles 29:10I Chronicles 29:11I Chronicles 29:12I Chronicles 29:13Psalms 72:18Psalms 72:19Psalms 115:1Matthew 6:9John 12:28Genesis 17:18

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I Chronicles 17:24Zechariah 1:3

(27) For thou, O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee.
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Ruth 4:4I Samuel 9:15Psalms 40:6I Chronicles 17:25I Chronicles 17:26Psalms 10:17

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Malachi 1:4Isaiah 22:14Zechariah 1:3

(28) And now, O Lord GOD, thou art that God, and thy words be true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:
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Numbers 23:19John 17:17Titus 1:2

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I John 5:20Romans 11:22

(29) Therefore now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee: for thou, O Lord GOD, hast spoken it: and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever.
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Numbers 6:24Numbers 6:25Numbers 6:26I Chronicles 17:27Psalms 115:12Psalms 115:13Psalms 115:14Psalms 115:15II Samuel 22:51

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Genesis 12:3Genesis 49:28I Chronicles 17:27Nehemiah 9:5Psalms 115:12

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