10. when I let judges rule my people, and I will keep your enemies from attacking you.Now I promise that like you, your descendants will be kings.
11. I'll choose one of your sons to be king when you reach the end of your life and are buried beside your ancestors. I'll make him a strong ruler,
12. and no one will be able to take his kingdom away from him. He will be the one to build a temple for me.
13. I will be like a father to him, and he will be like a son to me. I will never put an end to my agreement with him, as I put an end to my agreement with Saul, who was king before you.
14. I will make sure that your son and his descendants will rule my people and my kingdom for ever.
15. Nathan told David exactly what the Lord had said.
16. David went into the tent he had set up for the sacred chest. He sat there and prayed: Lord God, my family and I don't deserve what you have already done for us,
17. and yet you have promised to do even more for my descendants. You are treating me as if I am a very important person.
18. I am your servant, and you know my thoughts. What else can I say, except that you have honoured me?
19. It was your choice to do these wonderful things for me and to make these promises.
20. No other god is like you, Lord—you alone are God. Everything we have heard about you is true.
21. And there is no other nation on earth like Israel, the nation you rescued from slavery in Egypt to be your own. You became famous by using great and wonderful miracles to force other nations and their gods out of your land, so that your people could live here.
22. You have chosen Israel to be your people for ever, and you have become their God.