8. I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.
9. I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will not waste them any more, as at the first,
10. and from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that the Lord will build you a house.
11. It will happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your offspring after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
12. He will build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.
13. I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before you;
14. but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever. His throne will be established forever.”’”
15. According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.
16. Then David the king went in, and sat before the Lord; and he said, “Who am I, Lord God, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?
17. This was a small thing in your eyes, God; but you have spoken of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have respected me according to the standard of a man of high degree, Lord God.
18. What can David say yet more to you concerning the honour which is done to your servant? For you know your servant.
19. Lord, for your servant’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness, to make known all these great things.
20. Lord, there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.