For at the window of my house through my window lattice I looked out

My servant Moses is not like this; he is faithful in all my house.

If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

My guests and my servant girls consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes.

Abram added, “Since you have not given me a descendant, then look, one born in my house will be my heir!”

I will walk in the way of integrity. When will you come to me? I will conduct my business with integrity in the midst of my palace.

Deceitful people will not live in my palace. Liars will not be welcome in my presence.

He said, “I will not enter my own home, or get into my bed.

“I will abandon my nation. I will forsake the people I call my own. I will turn my beloved people over to the power of their enemies.

But Abram said, “O sovereign Lord, what will you give me since I continue to be childless, and my heir is Eliezer of Damascus?”

You will oversee my household, and all my people will submit to your commands. Only I, the king, will be greater than you.

then whoever is the first to come through the doors of my house to meet me when I return safely from fighting the Ammonites – he will belong to the Lord and I will offer him up as a burnt sacrifice.”

Don’t ever cut off your loyalty to my family, not even when the Lord has cut off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth

Do I have a shortage of fools, that you have brought me this man to display his insanity in front of me? Should this man enter my house?”

King David went in, sat before the Lord, and said, “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, that you should have brought me to this point?

David went in, sat before the Lord, and said: “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, that you should have brought me to this point?

He said to me, ‘Solomon your son is the one who will build my temple and my courts, for I have chosen him to become my son and I will become his father.

On the same day they slaughtered their sons for their idols, they came to my sanctuary to desecrate it. This is what they have done in the middle of my house.

“‘Therefore,’ says the Lord, ‘I have become compassionate toward Jerusalem and will rebuild my temple in it,’ says the Lord who rules over all. ‘Once more a surveyor’s measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.’

The man who owned the house went outside and said to them, “No, my brothers! Don’t do this wicked thing! After all, this man is a guest in my house. Don’t do such a disgraceful thing!