8. Now, therefore, so shalt thou say unto my slave David, Thus hath the Lord of the hosts said, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people, over Israel;
9. and I have been with thee wherever thou didst walk and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth.
10. Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, that they may dwell in their place and never again be removed; neither shall the sons of iniquity afflict them any more as before,
11. since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. And I will cause thee to rest from all thy enemies. Likewise, the Lord makes thee to know that he will make thee a house.
12. And when thy days are fulfilled and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
13. He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
14. I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the sons of men;
15. but my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I took away from before thee.
16. And thy house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee; thy throne shall be established for ever.
17. According to all these words and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
18. Then King David went in and sat before the Lord, and he said, O Lord GOD, Who am I and what is my house that thou hast brought me thus far?
19. And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou hast spoken also of thy slave’s house for a great while to come and that this shall be the condition of a man, O Lord GOD.
20. And what more can David say unto thee? For thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy slave.
21. For thou hast done all these great things by thy word and according to thine own heart to make thy slave know them.
22. Therefore, thou art great, O Lord God, for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.