¹And it came to pass, when David was sitting in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, “Look, I am sitting in a house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the Lord is under sheets.” ²And Nathan said to David, “Whatever is in your heart, do, for God is with you.” ³And it came to pass on that night that the word of God came to Nathan and said, ⁴“Go and say to my servant David, ‘This is what the Lord says: «It is not you who will build a house for me to dwell in, ⁵for I have not dwelt in a house from the day when I brought Israel up, up to this day, and I have been going from tent to tent and from tabernacle to tabernacle. ⁶Everywhere where I have gone about among all Israel, have I spoken a word with one of the judges of Israel whom I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, ‹Why have you not built me a house of cedar?›?» ’ ⁷So now, this is what you will say to my servant, to David: ‘This is what the Lord of hosts says: «I took you out of the pasture, from looking after the sheep, to be a leader over my people, Israel. ⁸And I was with you everywhere you went, and I cut off all your enemies at your advance, and I made a name for you, like the name of the great men who are on the earth. ⁹And I will appoint a place for my people – Israel – and I will plant them there, and they will dwell right there, and they will no longer shudder, and the unrighteous will no longer wear them out as at first. ¹⁰And ever since the days when I appointed judges over my people Israel, I have subdued all your enemies. And I have told you that the Lord will build you a house. ¹¹And it will come to pass that your days will be fulfilled for you to go to your fathers, but I will raise up your seed after you, who will be one of your sons, and I will establish his kingdom. ¹²He will build me a house, and I will establish his throne age-abidingly. ¹³I will be a father to him, and he will be a son to me, and I will not withdraw my kindness from him, as I withdrew it from him who was before you. ¹⁴And I will establish him in my house, and in my kingdom, age-abidingly, and his throne will be confirmed age-abidingly.» ’ ” ¹⁵According to all these words, and according to all of this vision, so Nathan spoke to David. ¹⁶Then King David came and sat before the Lord and said, “Who am I, O Lord God, and who constitutes my house, that you should have brought me here? ¹⁷And was this just a small matter in your sight, O God? For you spoke concerning the house of your servant from afar, yet you have considered me according to an exceeding privilege for a man, O Lord God. ¹⁸What more can David say to you in this honouring of your servant? For you know your servant. ¹⁹O Lord, for your servant's sake and according to your heart, you performed all of this great thing in making all great things known. ²⁰O Lord, there is none like you, and there is no God except for you in anything which we have heard with our ears. ²¹And who is like your people Israel, one nation on the earth, which God proceeded to redeem to himself as a people, and to establish a name for yourself by great and awesome deeds in driving out nations before your people whom you redeemed in Egypt? ²²And you have appointed your people Israel as your people age-abidingly, and you, O Lord, have become their God. ²³So now, O Lord, may the word which you spoke concerning your servant and concerning his house be upheld age-abidingly, and act as you have spoken. ²⁴And may your name be upheld, and may it be magnified age-abidingly, by people saying, ‘O Lord of hosts, O God of Israel, a God to Israel’, and may the house of David your servant be established before you. ²⁵For you, O God of mine, have informed your servant that you will build him a house, which is why your servant has found it in his heart to pray before you. ²⁶So now, O Lord, you are God, and you have pronounced this good thing concerning your servant. ²⁷And now, you have been willing to bless the house of your servant, for it to be before you age-abidingly, because you, O Lord, have blessed and are blessed age-abidingly.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 17: v.11 ↔ Acts 2:30 ● v.13 ↔ 2 Corinthians 6:18, Hebrews 1:5.