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Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.
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In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israelspake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my peopleIsrael,saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?
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Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servantDavid, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
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And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a greatname, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth.
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Moreover I will appoint a place for my peopleIsrael, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickednessafflict them any more, as beforetime,
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And as since the time that I commandedjudges to be over my peopleIsrael, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the LORDtelleth thee that he will make thee an house.
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And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seedafter thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
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I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: