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sayde vnto the King, Go, and doe all that is in O Lord God? 20 And what can Dauid say more
thine heart: for the Lord is with thee. 4 And vnto thee? for thou, Lord God, knowest thy
the same night the worde of the Lord came vnto seruant. 21 For thy words sake, and according to
Nathan, saying, Goe and tell my seruant Dauid, thine owne heart hast thou done all these great
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Thus saieth the Lord, Shalt thou buylde me an things, to make them knowen vnto thy seruant.
house for my dwelling? 6 For I haue dwelt in no 22 Wherefore thou art great, O Lord God: for
house since the time that I brought the children there is none like thee, neither is there any God
of Israel out of Egypt vnto this day, but haue besides thee, according to all that wee haue heard
walked in a tent and tabernacle. In al the places with our eares. 23 And what one people in the
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wherein I haue walked with all the children of earth is like thy people, like Israel? whose God
Israel, spake I one worde with any of the tribes went and redeemed them to himselfe, that they
of Israel when I commanded the iudges to feede might be his people, and that hee might make
my people Israel? or sayde I, Why build ye not him a name, and do for you great things, and
me an house of cedar trees? 8 Nowe therefore terrible for thy land, O Lord, euen for thy people,
so say vnto my seruant Dauid, Thus saieth the whome thou redeemedst to thee out of Egypt,
Lord of hostes, I tooke thee from the sheepecote from the nations, and their gods? 24 For thou hast
following the sheepe, that thou mightest bee ordeyned to thy selfe thy people Israel to be thy
ruler ouer my people, ouer Israel. 9 And I was people for euer: and thou Lord art become their
with thee wheresoeuer thou hast walked, and 25
haue destroyed all thine enemies out of thy sight, God. Nowe therefore, O Lord God, confirme for
and haue made thee a great name, like vnto the euer the word that thou hast spoken concerning
name of the great men that are in the earth. thy seruant and his house, and doe as thou hast
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10 (Also I will appoynt a place for my people Israel, sayde. And let thy Name bee magnified for euer
by them that shall say, The Lord of hostes is the
and will plant it, that they may dwell in a place God ouer Israel: and let the house of thy seruant
of their owne, and moue no more, neither shall 27
wicked people trouble them any more as before Dauid be stablished before thee. For thou, O
Lord of hostes, God of Israel, hast reueiled vnto
time, 11 And since the time that I set Iudges ouer thy seruant, saying, I will build thee an house:
my people of Israel) and I will giue thee rest therefore hath thy seruant bene bold to pray this
from al thine enemies: also the Lord telleth thee, prayer vnto thee. 28 Therefore now, O Lord God,
that he will make thee an house. 12 And when
thy daies bee fulfilled, thou shalt sleepe with thy (for thou art God, and thy words be true, and
fathers, and I wil set vp thy seede after thee, thou hast tolde this goodnes vnto thy seruant)
which shall proceede out of thy body, and will 29 Therefore nowe let it please thee to blesse the
stablish his kingdome. 13 He shall buyld an house house of thy seruant, that it may continue for
for my Name, and I will stablish ye throne of his euer before thee: for thou, O Lord God, hast
spoken it: and let the house of thy seruant be
kingdome for euer. 14 I will be his father, and blessed for euer, with thy blessing.
hee shall bee my sonne: and if he sinne, I will
chasten him with the rod of men, and with the
plagues of the children of men. 15 But my mercy 8
shall not depart away from him, as I tooke it from 1 After this now, Dauid smote the Philistims,
Saul whome I haue put away before thee. 16 And and subdued them, and Dauid tooke the bridle
thine house shall be stablished and thy kingdome of bondage out of the hand of the Philistims.
for euer before thee, euen thy throne shalbe 2 And hee smote Moab, and measured them with
stablished for euer. 17 According to all these a corde, and cast them downe to the ground: he
wordes, and according to all this vision, Nathan measured them with two cordes to put them to
spake thus vnto Dauid. 18 Then King Dauid went death, and with one full corde to keepe them
in, and sate before the Lord, and sayde, Who am aliue: so became the Moabites Dauids seruants,
and brought giftes. Dauid smote also Hadadezer
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I, O Lord God, and what is mine house, that thou
hast brought me hitherto? 19 And this was yet a the sonne of Rehob King of Zobah, as he went to
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small thing in thy sight, O Lord God, therefore recouer his border at the riuer Euphrates. And
thou hast spoken also of thy seruants house for Dauid tooke of them a thousand and seuen hun-
dreth horsemen, and twenty thousande foote-
a great while: but doth this appertaine to man, men, and Dauid destroyed all the charets, but he