12. when your days have been completed and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring after you, sprung from your loins, and I will establish his kingdom.
13. He it is who shall build a house for my name, and I will establish his royal throne forever.
14. I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. If he does wrong, I will reprove him with a human rod and with human punishments;
15. but I will not withdraw my favor from him as I withdrew it from Saul who was before you.
16. Your house and your kingdom are firm forever before me; your throne shall be firmly established forever.
17. In accordance with all these words and this whole vision Nathan spoke to David.
18. Then King David went in and sat in the Lord’s presence and said, “Who am I, Lord God, and what is my house, that you should have brought me so far?