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1 Chronicles 16

1 They brought in God's chest and placed it inside the tent David had pitched for it. Then they brought entirely burned offerings and well-being sacrifices before God.
2 When David had finished offering the entirely burned offerings and the well-being sacrifices, he blessed the people in the LORD's name
3 and distributed a loaf of bread, a piece of meat, and a raisin cake to every Israelite man and woman.
4 David appointed some of the Levites to serve before the LORD's chest in order to remember, to give thanks, and to praise the LORD, Israel's God:
5 Asaph was the leader, and Zechariah his assistant; also Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel with harps and lyres; Asaph sounding the cymbals;
6 and the priests Benaiah and Jahaziel blowing trumpets regularly before the chest containing God's covenant.
7 On the same day, for the first time, David ordered Asaph and his relatives to give thanks to the LORD.
8 Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; make his deeds known to all people!
9 Sing to God, sing praises to him; dwell on all his wondrous works!
10 Give praise to God's holy name! Let the hearts rejoice of all those seeking the LORD!
11 Pursue the LORD and his strength; seek his face always!
12 Remember the wondrous works he has done, all his marvelous works, and the justice he declared—
13 you who are the offspring of Israel, his servant, and the children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
14 The LORD—he is our God. His justice is everywhere throughout the whole world.
15 God remembers his covenant forever, the word he commanded to a thousand generations,
16 which he made with Abraham, the solemn pledge he swore to Isaac.
17 God set it up as binding law for Jacob, as an eternal covenant for Israel,
18 promising, "I hereby give you the land of Canaan as your allotted inheritance."
19 When they were few in number— insignificant, just immigrants—
20 wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to the next,
21 God didn't let anyone oppress them. God punished kings for their sake:
22 "Don't touch my anointed ones; don't harm my prophets!"
23 Sing to the LORD, all the earth! Share the news of his saving work every single day!
24 Declare God's glory among the nations; declare his wondrous works among all people
25 because the LORD is great and so worthy of praise. He is awesome beyond all other gods
26 because all the gods of the nations are just idols, but it is the LORD who created heaven!
27 Greatness and grandeur are in front of him; strength and joy are in his place.
28 Give to the LORD, all families of the nations— give to the LORD glory and power!
29 Give to the LORD the glory due his name! Bring gifts! Enter his presence! Bow down to the LORD in his holy splendor!
30 Tremble before him, all the earth! Yes, he set the world firmly in place; it won't be shaken.
31 Let heaven celebrate! Let the earth rejoice! Let the nations say, "The LORD rules!"
32 Let the sea and everything in it roar! Let the countryside and everything in it celebrate!
33 Then the trees of the forest will shout out joyfully before the LORD, because he is coming to establish justice on earth!
34 Give thanks to the LORD because he is good, because his faithful love endures forever.
35 Say: "Save us, God, our savior! Gather us! Deliver us from among the nations so we can give thanks to your holy name and rejoice in your praise."
36 Bless the LORD, Israel's God, from forever in the past to forever always. And let all the people say, "Amen!" Praise the LORD!
37 Then David placed Asaph and his relatives, together with Obed-edom and sixty-eight of his relatives, to minister there continually before the chest containing the LORD's covenant, following the routines required on each day.
38 Obed-edom, Jeduthun's son, and Hosah served as gatekeepers.
39 David also placed the priest Zadok and his other priestly relatives at the LORD's dwelling at the shrine in Gibeon.
40 They were to offer continually, both morning and evening, entirely burned offerings to the LORD on the altar for entirely burned offerings, following the written requirements in the LORD's Instruction, which he had given Israel.
41 With them were Heman and Jeduthun and the rest of those chosen by name to give thanks to the LORD, because his faithful love lasts forever.
42 With them were also the trumpets and the cymbals for the musicians and the instruments for God's songs. Jeduthun's family was at the gate.
43 Then all of the people left for their homes. And David returned to bless his household.
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1 Chronicles 17

1 When David was settled into his palace, he said to the prophet Nathan, "I'm living in a cedar palace while the chest containing the LORD's covenant is under curtains."
2 Nathan replied, "Go ahead and do whatever you are thinking, because God is with you."
3 But that very night God's word came to Nathan:
4 Go to my servant David and tell him, This is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build the temple for me to live in.
5 In fact, I haven't lived in a temple from the day I brought Israel out until this very day. I've been traveling from tent to tent and from dwelling to dwelling.
6 Throughout my traveling with the Israelites, did I ever ask one of Israel's tribal leaders, whom I appointed to shepherd my people, Why haven't you built me a cedar temple?
7 So then, say this to my servant David: This is what the LORD of heavenly forces says: I myself took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be leader over my people Israel.
8 I've been with you wherever you've gone. I've eliminated all your enemies before you. Now I will make your name great—like the name of the greatest people on earth.
9 I'm going to provide a place for my people Israel, and plant them so that they may live there and no longer be disturbed. Cruel people will no longer trouble them as they did earlier,
10 when I appointed judges over my people Israel. I'll subdue all your enemies and make you great. As for a dynasty, the LORD will build one for you!
11 When the time comes for you to die, I will raise up a descendant of yours after you, one of your own sons, to succeed you, and I will establish his kingship.
12 He is the one who will build me a temple, and I will establish his throne forever.
13 I will become his father and he will become my son, and I'll never withdraw my faithful love from him as I did from the one before you.
14 I'll install him in my house and in my kingdom forever, and his throne will be established forever.
15 Nathan faithfully reported all that he had seen and heard to David.
16 Then King David went and sat in the LORD's presence. He asked: Who am I, LORD God, and of what significance is my family that you have brought me this far?
17 But even this was too small in your eyes, God. You have spoken about the future of your servant's dynasty and have chosen me as an important person, LORD God.
18 What more can I say to you for honoring your servant? You yourself know your servant.
19 LORD, for your servant's sake and according to your will, you have done this great thing in order to make all these great things known.
20 LORD, no one can compare to you, no God except you, just as we have heard with our own ears.
21 Who is like your people Israel, a unique nation on the earth, that God redeemed as his own people, establishing a name for yourself by doing great and awesome things, by driving out nations before your people whom you saved from Egypt?
22 You established your people Israel as your own people forever, and you, LORD, became their God.
23 Now, LORD, confirm forever the promise you have made about your servant and his dynasty. Do as you have promised
24 so that it may be established and so that your name may be made great forever when people say, "The LORD of heavenly forces, the God of Israel, is Israel's God." May your servant David's household be established before you.
25 You, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a dynasty. That is why your servant has found the courage to pray this prayer to you.
26 LORD, you are truly God, and you promised this good thing to your servant.
27 So now willingly bless your servant's dynasty so that it might continue forever before you, because you, LORD God, have promised. Let your servant's dynasty be blessed forever by your blessing.
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