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and with them Heman and Jeduthun [with] trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and [with] instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate.

Nathan said to David, Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you.

It happened the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,

Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, Who am I, Yahweh God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?

This was a small thing in your eyes, God; but you have spoken of your servant's house for a great while to come, and have regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, Yahweh God.

Yahweh, there is none like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeem out of Egypt?

For your people Israel did you make your own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.

Let your name be established and magnified forever, saying, Yahweh of Hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and the house of David your servant is established before you.

For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a house: therefore has your servant found [in his heart] to pray before you.

Now, Yahweh, you are God, and have promised this good thing to your servant:

Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people, and for the cities of our God: and Yahweh do that which seems him good.

God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.

David said to God, I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing: but now, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.

God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the destroying angel, It is enough; now stay your hand. The angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

David said to God, Isn't it I who commanded the people to be numbered? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my father's house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.

But David couldn't go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of Yahweh.

Then David said, This is the house of Yahweh God, and this is the altar of burnt-offering for Israel.

David commanded to gather together the sojourners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew worked stones to build the house of God.

Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build a house for Yahweh, the God of Israel.