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

Then King David went in and sat before the LORD, and said, "Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my house, that thou hast brought me thus far?

And this was a small thing in thy eyes, O God; thou hast also spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast shown me future generations, O LORD God!

There is none like thee, O LORD, and there is no God besides thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

What other nation on earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his people, making for thyself a name for great and terrible things, in driving out nations before thy people whom thou didst redeem from Egypt?

And thou didst make thy people Israel to be thy people for ever; and thou, O LORD, didst become their God.

and thy name will be established and magnified for ever, saying, 'The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, is Israel's God,' and the house of thy servant David will be established before thee.

For thou, my God, hast revealed to thy servant that thou wilt build a house for him; therefore thy servant has found courage to pray before thee.

And now, O LORD, thou art God, and thou hast promised this good thing to thy servant;

Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people, and for the cities of our God; and may the LORD do what seems good to him."

But God was displeased with this thing, and he smote Israel.

And David said to God, "I have sinned greatly in that I have done this thing. But now, I pray thee, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly."

And God sent the angel to Jerusalem to destroy it; but when he was about to destroy it, the LORD saw, and he repented of the evil; and he said to the destroying angel, "It is enough; now stay your hand." And the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jeb'usite.

And David said to God, "Was it not I who gave command to number the people? It is I who have sinned and done very wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Let thy hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be against me and against my father's house; but let not the plague be upon thy people."

but David could not go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the LORD.

Then David said, "Here shall be the house of the LORD God and here the altar of burnt offering for Israel."

David commanded to gather together the aliens who were in the land of Israel, and he set stonecutters to prepare dressed stones for building the house of God.

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

David said to Solomon, "My son, I had it in my heart to build a house to the name of the LORD my God.

Now, my son, the LORD be with you, so that you may succeed in building the house of the LORD your God, as he has spoken concerning you.