1 Crónicas 17:1-15

Promesa de Dios a David

1 Una vez instalado en su palacio, David le dijo al profeta Natán:—¡Aquí me tienes, habitando un palacio de cedro, mientras que el arca del pacto del SEÑOR se encuentra bajo una simple tienda de campaña!

2 —Bien —respondió Natán—. Haga Su Majestad lo que su corazón le dicte, pues Dios está con usted.

3 Pero aquella misma noche la palabra de Dios vino a Natán y le dijo:

4 «Ve y dile a mi siervo David que así dice el SEÑOR: “No serás tú quien me construya una casa para que yo la habite.

5 Desde el día en que liberé a Israel hasta el día de hoy, no he habitado en casa alguna, sino que he ido de campamento en campamento y de santuario en santuario.

6 Todo el tiempo que anduve con Israel, cuando mandé a sus jueces^[a] que pastorearan a mi pueblo, ¿acaso le reclamé a alguno de ellos el no haberme construido una casa de cedro?”

7 »Pues bien, dile a mi siervo David que así dice el SEÑORTodopoderoso: “Yo te saqué del redil para que, en vez de cuidar ovejas, gobernaras a mi pueblo Israel.

8 Yo he estado contigo por dondequiera que has ido, y he aniquilado a todos tus enemigos. Y ahora voy a hacerte tan famoso como los más grandes de la tierra.

9 También voy a designar un lugar para mi pueblo Israel, y allí los plantaré para que puedan vivir sin sobresaltos. Sus malvados enemigos no volverán a oprimirlos como lo han hecho desde el principio,

10 desde los días en que nombré jueces sobre mi pueblo Israel. Yo derrotaré a todos tus enemigos. Te anuncio, además, que yo, el SEÑOR, te edificaré una casa.

11 Cuando tu vida llegue a su fin y vayas a reunirte con tus antepasados, yo pondré en el trono a uno de tus descendientes, a uno de tus hijos, y afirmaré su reino.

12 Será él quien construya una casa en mi honor, y yo afirmaré su trono para siempre.

13 Yo seré su padre, y él será mi hijo. Jamás le negaré mi amor, como se lo negué a quien reinó antes que tú.

14 Al contrario, para siempre lo estableceré en mi casa y en mi reino, y su trono será firme para siempre”».

15 Natán le comunicó todo esto a David, tal como lo había recibido por revelación.

1 Crónicas 17:1-15 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 17

This chapter contains an account of David's intention to build an house for God, which, he signified to Nathan the prophet, who first encouraged him to it; but afterwards was sent by the Lord to him with an order to desist from it, assuring him, at the same time, that his son should build it, and that his own house and kingdom should be established for ever; for which David expressed great thankfulness, the whole of which is related in 2Sa 7:1-29 with some little variation, see the notes there; only one thing has since occurred, which I would just take notice of, that here, 1Ch 17:5 as there also, it is said by the Lord, that he had "not dwelt in an house since the day he brought up Israel out of Egypt"; which seems to suggest that he had dwelt in one before, as has been hinted on 2Sa 7:6 even while the people of Israel were in Egypt, though it is nowhere mentioned by Moses, or any other writer; yet it is not unreasonable to suppose it; for as the ancestors of the Israelites, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, when only travellers from place to place, built altars for God wherever they came; so their posterity, it is highly probable, not only did the same, but when they found themselves settled in Egypt, in the land of Goshen, might build places of worship; and when we consider the wealth of Joseph, and his family, and indeed of all Israel, who enjoyed for many years great plenty, prosperity, and liberty, before their servitude, the vast numbers they increased to and the long continuance of them in Egypt, more than two hundred years; it will not seem strange that they should build houses for religious worship, and even one grand and splendid for public service, to which also they might be led by the example of the Egyptians; who, as Herodotus says {i}, were the first that erected altars, images, and temples to the gods, and who in the times of Joseph had one at On, where his father-in-law officiated as priest, Ge 41:45 or rather to this they might be directed by some hints and instructions of their father Jacob before his death, who it is certain had a notion of a Bethel, an house for the public worship of God, Ge 28:17,19,22, 35:1 and I find a learned man {k} of our own nation of this opinion, and which he founds upon this passage; and he supposes the house God dwelt in, in Egypt, was not a tent of goats' hair, as in the wilderness, but a structure of stones or bricks, a firm and stable house, such an one as Abraham built at Damascus when settled there; which continued to the times of Augustus Caesar, as related by Nicholas of Damascus {l}. See 2Sa 7:1-29.

{i} Euterpe, sive, l. 2. c. 4. {k} Dickinson. Physic. vet. & vera, c. 19. sect. 24. {l} Apud. Joseph. Antiqu. l. 1. c. 7. sect. 2. 18823-950102-2024-1Ch17.2

Footnotes

• [a]. "jueces" . Véase Jue 2:16.