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2 Samuel 7:3

Verse 3 of 29. The 7th of 24 chapters in 2 Samuel, in History.

1And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the Lord had given him rest round about from all his enemies;

2That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.

3And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thine heart; for the Lord is with thee.

4And it came to pass that night, that the word of the Lord came unto Nathan, saying,

5Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the Lord, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?

6Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time 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.

7In all the 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 feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?

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2 Samuel 7:3 in the World English Bible

Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart, for the LORD is with you.”
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Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 7:3

Nathan's approbation of it: Go, do all that is in thy heart; for the Lord is with thee, v. 3. We do not find that David told him that he purposed to build a temple, only that it was a trouble to him that there was not one built, from which Nathan easily gathered what was in his heart, and bade him go on and prosper.

Read Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 7:1–3: David's Care of the Ark. (b. c. 1042.)

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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.