12 (A)When your days are finished and you [a](B)lie down with your fathers, (C)I will raise up your [b]descendant after you, who will come from [c]you, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 (D)He shall build a house for My name, and (E)I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 14 (F)I will be a father to him and he will be a son to Me; (G)when he does wrong, I will discipline him with a rod of men and with strokes of sons of mankind, 15 but My favor shall not depart from him, (H)as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from you. 16 (I)Your house and your kingdom shall endure before [d]Me forever; your throne shall be established forever.”’” 17 In accordance with all these words and all of this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 7:12 I.e., die
  2. 2 Samuel 7:12 Lit seed
  3. 2 Samuel 7:12 Lit your bowels
  4. 2 Samuel 7:16 As in LXX and some ancient mss; MT you

13 Yet (A)I will not tear away all the kingdom, but (B)I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David, and (C)for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.”

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36 But (A)to his son I will give one tribe, (B)so that My servant David may always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, (C)the city where I have chosen for Myself to put My name.

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