--- title: "1 Chronicles 17:4-14 KJV - \"Go and tell David my servant, Thus sai...\" | Real Bible Believers" description: "\"Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in: For I have not dwelt in an house\" — Read 1 Chronicles 17:4-14 in the King James Version (KJV) with commentary, cross references, and Greek/Hebrew lexicon." image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/1-chronicles/17/4-14" --- [ Read](/kjv/1-chronicles/17)[ Commentary](/study/1-chronicles/17)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/1-chronicles/17) Audio ## 1 Chronicles 17:4-14 in Context (Verses 1–17 KJV) [1 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/17/1) Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD *remaineth* under curtains. [2 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/17/2) Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that *is* in thine heart; for God *is* with thee. [3 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/17/3) ¶ And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying, [4 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/17/4) Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in: [5 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/17/5) For I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought up Israel unto this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from *one* tabernacle *to another*.* [6 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/17/6) Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars? [7 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/17/7) Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, *even* from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:* [8 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/17/8) And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that *are* in the earth. [9 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/17/9) Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning, [10 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/17/10) And since the time that I commanded judges *to be* over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that the LORD will build thee an house. [11 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/17/11) ¶ And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go *to be* with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom. [12 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/17/12) He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever. [13 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/17/13) I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took *it* from *him* that was before thee: [14 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/17/14) But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be established for evermore. [15 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/17/15) According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David. [16 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/17/16) ¶ And David the king came and sat before the LORD, and said, Who *am* I, O LORD God, and what *is* mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto? [17 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/17/17) And *yet* this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast *also* spoken of thy servant’s house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O LORD God. 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