So now, O Lord, may the promise you made about your servant and his family become a permanent reality! Do as you promised,

The Lord told Gad, David’s prophet,

So David went up as Gad instructed him to do in the name of the Lord.

Nathan told David all these words that were revealed to him.

Now, O Lord, you are the true God; you have made this good promise to your servant.

And you did not stop there, O God! You have also spoken about the future of your servant’s family. You have revealed to me what men long to know, O Lord God.

“Go, tell David, ‘This is what the Lord says: “I am offering you three forms of judgment from which to choose. Pick one of them.”’”

“Now, my son, may the Lord be with you! May you succeed and build a temple for the Lord your God, just as he announced you would.

Wherever I moved throughout Israel, I did not say to any of the leaders whom I appointed to care for my people Israel, ‘Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?’”’