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⁽ⁱ⁾Wherever I have gone with all the sons of Israel, did I speak a word with one of the tribes of Israel, ^(j)which I commanded to shepherd My people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?'"'

"Now therefore, thus you shall say to My servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, "^(k)I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, ^(l)to be ruler over My people Israel.

^(m)I have been with you wherever you have gone and ⁽ⁿ⁾have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a great name, like the names of the great men who are on the earth.

I will also appoint a place for My people Israel and ^(o)will plant them, that they may live in their own place and not be disturbed again, ^(p)nor will the ^[b]wicked afflict them any more as formerly,