The First Book of Chronicles, starting at chapter 16
{16:1} They brought in the ark of God, and set it in the midst of
the tent that David had pitched for it: and they offered burnt
offerings and peace offerings before God. {16:2} When David had made
an end of offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he
blessed the people in the name of the LORD. {16:3} He dealt to
everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread,
and a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins. {16:4} He appointed
certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, and to
celebrate and to thank and praise the LORD, the God of Israel: {16:5}
Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth,
and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-Edom, and
Jeiel, with stringed instruments and with harps; and Asaph with
cymbals, sounding aloud; {16:6} and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests
with [1>]shofars[<1] continually, before the ark of the covenant of
God.
{16:7} Then on that day David first ordained to give thanks to the
LORD, by the hand of Asaph and his brothers.
{16:8} Oh give thanks to the LORD.
Call on his name.
Make his doings known among the peoples.
{16:9} Sing to him.
Sing praises to him.
Tell of all his marvelous works.
{16:10} Glory in his holy name.
Let the heart of those who seek the LORD rejoice.
{16:11} Seek the LORD and his strength.
Seek his face forever more.
{16:12} Remember his marvelous works that he has done,
his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
{16:13} you seed of Israel his servant,
you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
{16:14} He is the LORD our God.
His judgments are in all the earth.
{16:15} Remember his covenant forever,
the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
{16:16} the covenant which he made with Abraham,
his oath to Isaac.
{16:17} He confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute,
and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
{16:18} saying, "I will give you the land of Canaan,
The lot of your inheritance,"
{16:19} when you were but a few men in number,
yes, very few, and foreigners were in it.
{16:20} They went about from nation to nation,
from one kingdom to another people.
{16:21} He allowed no man to do them wrong.
Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
{16:22} "Don't touch my anointed ones!
Do my prophets no harm!"
{16:23} Sing to the LORD, all the earth!
Display his salvation from day to day.
{16:24} Declare his glory among the nations,
and his marvelous works among all the peoples.
{16:25} For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised.
He also is to be feared above all gods.
{16:26} For all the gods of the peoples are idols,
but the LORD made the heavens.
{16:27} Honor and majesty are before him.
Strength and gladness are in his place.
{16:28} Ascribe to the LORD, you relatives of the peoples,
ascribe to the LORD glory and strength!
{16:29} Ascribe to the LORD the glory due to his name.
Bring an offering, and come before him.
Worship the LORD in holy array.
{16:30} Tremble before him, all the earth.
The world also is established that it can't be moved.
{16:31} Let the heavens be glad,
and let the earth rejoice!
Let them say among the nations, "The LORD reigns!"
{16:32} Let the sea roar, and its fullness!
Let the field exult, and all that is therein!
{16:33} Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before the LORD,
for he comes to judge the earth.
{16:34} Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,
for his loving kindness endures forever.
{16:35} Say, "Save us, God of our salvation!
Gather us together and deliver us from the nations,
to give thanks to your holy name,
to triumph in your praise."
{16:36} Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel,
from everlasting even to everlasting.
All the people said, "Amen," and praised the LORD.
{16:37} So he left there, before the ark of the covenant of the
LORD, Asaph and his brothers, to minister before the ark continually,
as every day's work required; {16:38} and Obed-Edom with their
brothers, sixty-eight; Obed-Edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to
be doorkeepers; {16:39} and Zadok the priest, and his brothers the
priests, before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that was
at Gibeon, {16:40} to offer burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar
of burnt offering continually morning and evening, even according to
all that is written in the Torah of the LORD, which he commanded to
Israel; {16:41} and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who
were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to the LORD,
because his loving kindness endures forever; {16:42} and with them
Heman and Jeduthun with [2>]shofars[<2] and cymbals for those that
should sound aloud, and with instruments for the songs of God; and the
sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate. {16:43} All the people departed
every man to his house: and David returned to bless his house.
{17:1} It happened, when David lived in his house, that David said
to Nathan the prophet, "Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the
ark of the covenant of the LORD is under curtains."
{17:2} Nathan said to David, "Do all that is in your heart; for God
is with you."
{17:3} It happened the same night, that the word of God came to
Nathan, saying, {17:4} "Go and tell David my servant, 'Thus says the
LORD, "You shall not build me a house to dwell in; {17:5} for I have
not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel, to this
day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tent to another.
{17:6} In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, did I
speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be
shepherd of my people, saying, 'Why have you not built me a house of
cedar?'"'
{17:7} "Now therefore, you shall tell my servant David, 'Thus says
the LORD of Hosts, "I took you from the sheep pen, from following the
sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel. {17:8} 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. {17:9} 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; neither shall the children of wickedness
waste them any more, as at the first, {17:10} and from the day that I
commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will subdue all
your enemies. Moreover I tell you that the LORD will build you a
house. {17:11} It shall happen, when your days are fulfilled that you
must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after
you, who shall be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
{17:12} He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne
forever. {17:13} I will be his father, and he shall be my son. I will
not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that
was before you; {17:14} but I will settle him in my house and in my
kingdom forever. His throne shall be established forever."'" {17:15}
According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so
Nathan spoke to David.
{17:16} 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 thus far? {17:17} 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 estate of a man of high degree,
LORD God. {17:18} What can David say yet more to you concerning the
honor which is done to your servant? For you know your servant.
{17:19} LORD, for your servant's sake, and according to your own
heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make known all these
great things. {17:20} LORD, there is none like you, neither is there
any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our
ears. {17:21} What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel,
whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by
great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your
people, whom you redeem out of Egypt? {17:22} For your people Israel
you made your own people forever; and you, LORD, became their God.
{17:23} Now, LORD, let the word that you have spoken concerning your
servant, and concerning his house, be established forever, and do as
you have spoken. {17:24} Let your name be established and magnified
forever, saying, 'The LORD of Hosts is the God of Israel, even a God
to Israel. The house of David your servant is established before you.'
{17:25} For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will
build him a house. Therefore your servant has found courage to pray
before you. {17:26} Now, LORD, you are God, and have promised this
good thing to your servant. {17:27} Now it has pleased you to bless
the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you;
for you, LORD, have blessed, and it is blessed forever."
{18:1} After this it happened, that David struck the Philistines,
and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the
Philistines. {18:2} He struck Moab; and the Moabites became servants
to David, and brought tribute. {18:3} David struck Hadadezer king of
Zobah to Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river
Euphrates. {18:4} David took from him one thousand chariots, and seven
thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David hamstrung
all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots.
{18:5} When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of
Zobah, David struck of the Syrians twenty-two thousand men. {18:6}
Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became
servants to David, and brought tribute. The LORD gave victory to David
wherever he went. {18:7} David took the shields of gold that were on
the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem. {18:8} From
Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took very much brass,
with which Solomon made the bronze sea, and the pillars, and the
vessels of brass. {18:9} When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had
struck all the army of Hadadezer king of Zobah, {18:10} he sent
Hadoram his son to king David, to Greet him, and to bless him, because
he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him; (for Hadadezer had
wars with Tou;) and he had with him all kinds of vessels of gold and
silver and brass. {18:11} King David also dedicated these to the LORD,
with the silver and the gold that he carried away from all the
nations; from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and
from the Philistines, and from Amalek. {18:12} Moreover Abishai the
son of Zeruiah struck of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt eighteen
thousand. {18:13} He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites
became servants to David. The LORD gave victory to David wherever he
went. {18:14} David reigned over all Israel; and he executed justice
and righteousness to all his people. {18:15} Joab the son of Zeruiah
was over the army; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;
{18:16} and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of
Abiathar, were priests; and Shavsha was scribe; {18:17} and Benaiah
the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and
the sons of David were chief about the king.
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Footnotes:
[1] {16:6} or, trumpets
[2] {16:42} or, trumpets
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