10. since the time that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel. Also I will subdue all your enemies. Furthermore I tell you that the Lord will build you a house.
11. And it shall be, when your days are fulfilled, when you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
12. He shall build Me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.
13. I will be his Father, and he shall be My son; and I will not take My mercy away from him, as I took it from him who was before you.
14. And I will establish him in My house and in My kingdom forever; and his throne shall be established forever.” ’ ”
15. According to all these words and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.
16. Then King David went in and sat before the Lord; and he said: “Who am I, O Lord God? And what is my house, that You have brought me this far?
17. And yet this was a small thing in Your sight, O God; and You have also spoken of Your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have regarded me according to the rank of a man of high degree, O Lord God.
18. What more can David say to You for the honor of Your servant? For You know Your servant.
19. O Lord, for Your servant’s sake, and according to Your own heart, You have done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.
20. O Lord, there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
21. And who is like Your people Israel, the one nation on the earth whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people—to make for Yourself a name by great and awesome deeds, by driving out nations from before Your people whom You redeemed from Egypt?