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    "chapter": 7
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    "n": 7,
    "bookSlug": "2-samuel",
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "2SA-7:1",
        "verseRef": "2Sam.7.1",
        "text": "And it came to pass, when the king dwelt in his house, and Jehovah had given him rest from all his enemies round about,"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "2SA-7:2",
        "verseRef": "2Sam.7.2",
        "text": "that the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "2SA-7:3",
        "verseRef": "2Sam.7.3",
        "text": "And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thy heart; for Jehovah is with thee."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "2SA-7:4",
        "verseRef": "2Sam.7.4",
        "text": "And it came to pass the same night, that the word of Jehovah came unto Nathan, saying,"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "2SA-7:5",
        "verseRef": "2Sam.7.5",
        "text": "Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith Jehovah, Shalt thou build me a house for me to dwell in?"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "2SA-7:6",
        "verseRef": "2Sam.7.6",
        "text": "for I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "2SA-7:7",
        "verseRef": "2Sam.7.7",
        "text": "In all places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel, spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, Why have ye not built me a house of cedar?"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "2SA-7:8",
        "verseRef": "2Sam.7.8",
        "text": "Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be prince over my people, over Israel;"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "2SA-7:9",
        "verseRef": "2Sam.7.9",
        "text": "and I have been with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee; and I will make thee a great name, like unto the name of the great ones that are in the earth."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "2SA-7:10",
        "verseRef": "2Sam.7.10",
        "text": "And 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 afflict them any more, as at the first,"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "2SA-7:11",
        "verseRef": "2Sam.7.11",
        "text": "and [as] from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will cause thee to rest from all thine enemies. Moreover Jehovah telleth thee that Jehovah will make thee a house."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "2SA-7:12",
        "verseRef": "2Sam.7.12",
        "text": "When thy days are fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, that shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "2SA-7:13",
        "verseRef": "2Sam.7.13",
        "text": "He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "2SA-7:14",
        "verseRef": "2Sam.7.14",
        "text": "I will be his father, and he shall be my son: if he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "2SA-7:15",
        "verseRef": "2Sam.7.15",
        "text": "but my lovingkindness shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "2SA-7:16",
        "verseRef": "2Sam.7.16",
        "text": "And thy house and thy kingdom shall be made sure for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "2SA-7:17",
        "verseRef": "2Sam.7.17",
        "text": "According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "2SA-7:18",
        "verseRef": "2Sam.7.18",
        "text": "Then David the king went in, and sat before Jehovah; and he said, Who am I, O Lord Jehovah, and what is my house, that thou hast brought me thus far?"
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "2SA-7:19",
        "verseRef": "2Sam.7.19",
        "text": "And this was yet a small thing in thine eyes, O Lord Jehovah; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant`s house for a great while to come; and this [too] after the manner of men, O Lord Jehovah!"
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "2SA-7:20",
        "verseRef": "2Sam.7.20",
        "text": "And what can David say more unto thee? for thou knowest thy servant, O Lord Jehovah."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "2SA-7:21",
        "verseRef": "2Sam.7.21",
        "text": "For thy word`s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou wrought all this greatness, to make thy servant know it."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "2SA-7:22",
        "verseRef": "2Sam.7.22",
        "text": "Wherefore thou art great, O Jehovah God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God besides thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "2SA-7:23",
        "verseRef": "2Sam.7.23",
        "text": "And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem unto himself for a people, and to make him a name, and to do great things for you, and terrible things for thy land, before thy people, whom thou redeemest to thee out of Egypt, [from] the nations and their gods?"
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "2SA-7:24",
        "verseRef": "2Sam.7.24",
        "text": "And thou didst establish to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever; and thou, Jehovah, becamest their God."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "2SA-7:25",
        "verseRef": "2Sam.7.25",
        "text": "And now, O Jehovah God, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, confirm thou it for ever, and do as thou hast spoken."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "2SA-7:26",
        "verseRef": "2Sam.7.26",
        "text": "And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, Jehovah of hosts is God over Israel; and the house of thy servant David shall be established before thee."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "2SA-7:27",
        "verseRef": "2Sam.7.27",
        "text": "For thou, O Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee a house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "2SA-7:28",
        "verseRef": "2Sam.7.28",
        "text": "And now, O Lord Jehovah, thou art God, and thy words are truth, and thou hast promised this good thing unto thy servant:"
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "2SA-7:29",
        "verseRef": "2Sam.7.29",
        "text": "now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee; for thou, O Lord Jehovah, hast spoken it: and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever."
      }
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