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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 Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God is
with thee.
3 And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to
Nathan, saying,
4 Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD,
Thou shalt not
build me an house to dwell in:
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever.
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 But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever: and
his throne shall be established for evermore.
15 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so
did Nathan speak unto David.
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 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.
18 What can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for
thou knowest thy servant.
19 O LORD, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own heart,
hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all these great
things.
20 O LORD, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside
thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
21 And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God
went to redeem to be his own people, to make thee a name of greatness
and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people, whom
thou hast redeemed out of Egypt?
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Exodus 6:6 Wherefore say unto the children of
Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the
burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of
their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and
with great judgments:
7 And I will take you to me for a people,
and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD
your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the
Egyptians. 8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning
the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob;
and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the LORD.
22 For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and
thou, LORD, becamest their God.
23 Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning
thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as
thou hast said.
24 Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever,
saying, The LORD of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel:
and let the house of David thy servant be established before thee.
25 For thou, O my God, hast told thy servant that
thou wilt build him an house: therefore thy servant hath found in his
heart to pray before thee.
26 And now, LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness unto thy
servant:
27 Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant,
that it may be before thee for ever: for thou blessest, O LORD, and it
shall be blessed for ever.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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