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Chronicles 16-18
1Ch
16:1 They brought in the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the
tent that David had pitched for it: and they offered burnt offerings
and peace offerings before God.
1Ch
16:2 When David had made an end of offering the burnt offering and
the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh.
1Ch
16:3 He dealt to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to every
one a loaf of bread, and a portion of
flesh, and a cake of raisins.
1Ch
16:4 He appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark
of Yahweh, and to celebrate and to thank and praise Yahweh, the God
of Israel:
1Ch
16:5 Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and
Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and
Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, with stringed instruments and with harps; and
Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud;
1Ch
16:6 and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually,
before the ark of the covenant of God.
1Ch
16:7 Then on that day David first ordained to give thanks to Yahweh,
by the hand of Asaph and his brothers.
1Ch
16:8 Oh give thanks to Yahweh. Call on his name. Make his doings
known among the peoples.
1Ch
16:9 Sing to him. Sing praises to him. Tell of all his marvelous
works.
1Ch
16:10 Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh
rejoice.
1Ch
16:11 Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
1Ch
16:12 Remember his marvelous works that he has done, his wonders,
and the judgments of his mouth,
1Ch
16:13 you seed of Israel his servant, you children of Jacob, his
chosen ones.
1Ch
16:14 He is Yahweh our God. His judgments are in all the earth.
1Ch
16:15 Remember his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to
a thousand generations,
1Ch
16:16 the covenant
which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac.
1Ch
16:17 He confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, and to Israel
for an everlasting covenant,
1Ch
16:18 saying, I will give you the land of Canaan, The lot of your
inheritance,
1Ch
16:19 when you were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and
foreigners were in it.
1Ch
16:20 They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to
another people.
1Ch
16:21 He allowed no man to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for
their sakes,
1Ch
16:22 saying,
Don't touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm.
1Ch
16:23 Sing to Yahweh, all the earth! Display his salvation from day
to day.
1Ch
16:24 Declare his glory among the nations, and his marvelous works
among all the peoples.
1Ch
16:25 For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised. He also is to
be feared above all gods.
1Ch
16:26 For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the
heavens.
1Ch
16:27 Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and gladness are in
his place.
1Ch
16:28 Ascribe to Yahweh, you relatives of the peoples, ascribe to
Yahweh glory and strength!
1Ch
16:29 Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Bring an
offering, and come before him. Worship Yahweh in holy array.
1Ch
16:30 Tremble before him, all the earth. The world also is
established that it can't be moved.
1Ch
16:31 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice! Let them
say among the nations, Yahweh reigns.
1Ch
16:32 Let the sea roar, and its fullness! Let the field exult, and
all that is therein!
1Ch
16:33 Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before Yahweh,
for he comes to judge the earth.
1Ch
16:34 Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving
kindness endures forever.
1Ch
16:35 Say, Save us, God of our salvation! Gather us together and
deliver us from the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to
triumph in your praise.
1Ch
16:36 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to
everlasting. All the people said, Amen, and praised Yahweh.
1Ch
16:37 So he left there, before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh,
Asaph and his brothers, to minister before the ark continually, as
every day's work required;
1Ch
16:38 and Obed-Edom with their brothers, sixty-eight; Obed-Edom also
the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be doorkeepers;
1Ch
16:39 and Zadok the priest, and his brothers the priests, before the
tabernacle of Yahweh in the high place that was at Gibeon,
1Ch
16:40 to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of burnt
offering continually morning and evening, even according to all that
is written in the law of Yahweh, which he commanded to Israel;
1Ch
16:41 and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were
chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to Yahweh, because
his loving kindness endures forever;
1Ch
16:42 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.
1Ch
16:43 All the people departed every man to his house: and David
returned to bless his house.
1Ch
17:1 It happened, when David lived in his house, that David said to
Nathan the prophet, Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark
of the covenant of Yahweh dwells
under curtains.
1Ch
17:2 Nathan said to David, Do all that is in your heart; for God is
with you.
1Ch
17:3 It happened the same night, that the word of God came to
Nathan, saying,
1Ch
17:4 Go and tell David my servant, Thus says Yahweh, You shall not
build me a house to dwell in:
1Ch
17:5 for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up
Israel, to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one
tent to another.
1Ch
17:6 In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, spoke I a
word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be
shepherd of my people, saying, Why have you not built me a house of
cedar?
1Ch
17:7 Now therefore thus you shall tell my servant David, Thus says
Yahweh of Armies, I took you from the sheep pen, from following the
sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel:
1Ch
17:8 and I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut
off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a name,
like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.
1Ch
17:9 I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant
them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more;
neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at
the first,
1Ch
17:10 and as
from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and
I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that Yahweh will
build you a house.
1Ch
17:11 It shall happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go
to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who
shall be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
1Ch
17:12 He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne
forever.
1Ch
17:13 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not
take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was
before you;
1Ch
17:14 but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever;
and his throne shall be established forever.
1Ch
17:15 According to all these words, and according to all this
vision, so did Nathan speak to David.
1Ch
17:16 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?
1Ch
17:17 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.
1Ch
17:18 What can David say
yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant?
for you know your servant.
1Ch
17:19 Yahweh, for your servant's sake, and according to your own
heart, have you worked all this greatness, to make known all these
great things.
1Ch
17:20 Yahweh, there is none like you, neither is there any God
besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
1Ch
17:21 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?
1Ch
17:22 For your people Israel you made your own people forever; and
you, Yahweh, became their God.
1Ch
17:23 Now, Yahweh, let the word that you have spoken concerning your
servant, and concerning his house, be established forever, and do as
you have spoken.
1Ch
17:24 Let your name be established and magnified forever, saying,
Yahweh of Armies is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and the
house of David your servant is established before you.
1Ch
17:25 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.
1Ch
17:26 Now, Yahweh, you are God, and have promised this good thing to
your servant:
1Ch
17:27 and now it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant,
that it may continue forever before you: for you, Yahweh, have
blessed, and it is blessed forever.
1Ch
18:1 After this it happened, that David struck the Philistines, and
subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the
Philistines.
1Ch
18:2 He struck Moab; and the Moabites became servants to David, and
brought tribute.
1Ch
18:3 David struck Hadadezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to
establish his dominion by the river Euphrates.
1Ch
18:4 David took from him one thousand chariots, and seven thousand
horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David hamstrung all the
chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots.
1Ch
18:5 When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of
Zobah, David struck of the Syrians twenty-two thousand men.
1Ch
18:6 Then David put garrisons
in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and
brought tribute. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
1Ch
18:7 David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of
Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
1Ch
18:8 From Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took very
much brass, with which Solomon made the bronze sea, and the pillars,
and the vessels of brass.
1Ch
18:9 When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the
army of Hadadezer king of Zobah,
1Ch
18:10 he sent Hadoram his son to king David, to Greet him, and to
bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him;
(for Hadadezer had wars with Tou;) and he
had with him all manner of vessels of
gold and silver and brass.
1Ch
18:11 These also did king David dedicate to Yahweh, with the silver
and the gold that he carried away from all the nations; from Edom,
and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the
Philistines, and from Amalek.
1Ch
18:12 Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck of the Edomites in
the Valley of Salt eighteen thousand.
1Ch
18:13 He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants
to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
1Ch
18:14 David reigned over all Israel; and he executed justice and
righteousness to all his people.
1Ch
18:15 Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; and Jehoshaphat the
son of Ahilud was recorder;
1Ch
18:16 and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of
Abiathar, were priests; and Shavsha was scribe;
1Ch
18:17 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and
the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king.