1 Crônicas 17

1 When David was living in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, "Behold, I live in a cedar house, but the ark of Yahweh’s covenant is in a tent."

2 Nathan said to David, "Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you."

3 That same night, the word of God came to Nathan, saying, 4 "Go and tell David my servant, ‘Yahweh says, "You shall not build me a house to dwell in; 5 for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tent to another. 6 In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’"’

7 "Now therefore, you shall tell my servant David, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, "I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people Israel. 8 I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a name like the name of the great ones who are in the earth. 9 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. The children of wickedness will not waste them any more, as at the first, 10 and from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that Yahweh will build you a house. 11 It will happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your offspring after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom. 12 He will build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever. 13 I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him who was before you; 14 but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever. His throne will be established forever."’" 15 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.

16 Then David the king went in and sat before Yahweh; and he said, "Who am I, Yahweh God, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far? 17 This was a small thing in your eyes, O God, but you have spoken of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have respected me according to the standard of a man of high degree, Yahweh God. 18 What can David say yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant? For you know your servant. 19 Yahweh, for your servant’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness, to make known all these great things. 20 Yahweh, there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. 21 What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people whom you redeemed out of Egypt? 22 For you made your people Israel your own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God. 23 Now, Yahweh, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, be established forever, and do as you have spoken. 24 Let your name be established and magnified forever, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel. The house of David your servant is established before you.’ 25 For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a house. Therefore your servant has found courage to pray before you. 26 Now, Yahweh, you are God, and have promised this good thing to your servant. 27 Now it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Yahweh, have blessed, and it is blessed forever."

Te Pānui a Nātana ki a Rāwiri

1 Ā, i a Rāwiri e noho ana i tōna whare, ka mea a Rāwiri ki a Nātana poropiti, "Nā, kei te noho ahau ki te whare hīta, ko te āka ia o te kawenata a Ihowā kei raro i te ārai kākahu e noho ana."

2 Anō rā ko Nātana ki a Rāwiri, "Meatia ngā mea katoa i tōu ngākau; kei a koe hoki te Atua."

3 Nā, i taua pō ka puta te kupu a te Atua ki a Nātana, ka mea:

4 "Haere, mea atu ki tāku pononga, ki a Rāwiri: ‘Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā: Kaua e hangā e koe he whare hei nohoanga mōku. 5 Kāhore nei hoki ahau i noho i roto i te whare, nō te rangi i kawea mai ai e ahau a Īharaira ā taea noatia tēnei rā. Heoi, he noho haere tōku i tētahi tēneti ki tētahi tēneti, i tētahi tapenākara ki tētahi tapenākara. 6 I ōku hāereerenga katoa i roto i a Īharaira katoa i puaki rānei tētahi kupu āku ki tētahi o ngā kaiwhakarite o Īharaira i whakaritea e ahau hei hēpara mō tāku iwi, i mea rānei ahau, "He aha koutou tē hanga whare hīta ai mōku?" ’

7 "Nō reira kia pēnei tāu kī atu āianei ki tāku pononga, ki a Rāwiri: ‘Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā o ngā mano: Nāku koe i tango i te nohoanga hipi, i te whai hipi, hei rangatira mō tāku iwi, mō Īharaira; 8 ā, i a koe ahau i ōu haerenga katoa; hautopea atu ana e ahau ōu hoariri katoa i tōu aroaro; ā, meinga ana koe e ahau hei ingoa, hei pērā anō me te ingoa o ngā mea nunui o te whenua. 9 Nā, māku e whakarite he wāhi mō tāku iwi, mō Īharaira; ka whakatōkia anō rātou e ahau kia noho ki tō rātou ake, e kore anō rātou e ngāueue ā muri ake nei; e kore anō rātou e pēhia ki raro i muri nei e ngā tama a te kino; e kore e pērā me tō mua, 10 me tō te wā anō i whakaritea ai e ahau ngā kaiwhakarite mō tāku iwi, mō Īharaira; ā, ka pēhia e ahau ki raro ōu hoariri katoa.

" ‘Ko tētahi, e mea atu ana ahau ki a koe, mā Ihowā e hanga he whare mōu. 11 Ā, ka tutuki ōu rā, ka haere koe ki ōu mātua, nā, ka whakaarahia e ahau tōu uri i muri i a koe i roto i āu tama, ka whakapūmautia anō e ahau tōna kīngitanga. 12 Māna e hanga he whare mōku, ā, ka whakapūmautia e ahau tōna torōna ā ake ake. 13 Ko ahau hei matua ki a ia, ko ia hei tama ki ahau, e kore anō e mutu tōku aroha ki a ia, e kore e pērā me tōku i mutu ki tērā i mua atu nā i a koe, 14 ā, ka tūturu ia ki tōku whare, ki tōku kīngitanga ā ake ake; ā, ka mau tonu tōna torōna mō ake tonu atu.’ "

15 Rite tonu ki ēnei kupu katoa, ki tēnei putanga katoa, ngā kupu a Nātana ki a Rāwiri.

Te Īnoi Whakawhetai a Rāwiri

16 Nā, ka haere a Kīngi Rāwiri, ka noho ki te aroaro o Ihowā, ā, ka mea ia:

"Ko wai ahau, e Ihowā, e te Atua, he aha hoki tōku whare, i kawea mai ai ahau e koe ki konei? 17 He mea iti anō tēnei ki tāu titiro, e te Atua; kua kōrerotia nei hoki e koe te whare o tāu pononga a tau tini noa atu, ā, kua titiro mai hoki koe ki ahau, ānō ki te tangata nui rawa, e Ihowā, e te Atua.

18 "Ko te aha ake hei kōrerotanga mā Rāwiri ki a koe mō te whakahōnore i tāu pononga? E mōhio ana hoki koe ki tāu pononga. 19 He whakaaro ki tāu pononga, e Ihowā, rite tonu anō ki tā tōu ngākau, i mea ai koe i ēnei mea nunui katoa, i whakaritea mai ai ēnei mea nunui katoa.

20 "Kāhore he rite mōu, e Ihowā, kāhore atu hoki he atua, ko koe anake; rite tonu ki ngā mea katoa i rongo ai ō mātou taringa. 21 Ko tēhea iwi hoki o te whenua hei rite mō tāu iwi, mō Īharaira, i haere nei te Atua ki te hoko hei iwi māna ake, hei mea ingoa mōu, ki ngā hanga nunui, whakamataku hoki, i te peinga atu i ngā tauiwi i te aroaro o tāu iwi i hokona nei e koe i Īhipa? 22 Kua meinga nei hoki e koe tāu iwi, a Īharaira, hei iwi māu ā ake ake; me koe hoki, e Ihowā hei Atua mō rātou.

23 "Nā, whakamanā āianei, e Ihowā, te kupu i kōrerotia e koe mō tāu pononga, mō tōna whare hoki ake ake, meatia hoki tāu i kōrero ai. 24 Kia mana anō, kia whakanuia hoki tōu ingoa ā ake ake, kia kōrerotia ai, ‘Ko Ihowā o ngā mano te Atua o Īharaira, hei Atua anō ki a Īharaira!’ Ā, ka tūturu tonu te whare o tāu pononga, o Rāwiri, ki tōu aroaro.

25 "Nāu nei hoki, e tōku Atua, i whakapuaki mai ki tāu pononga, ka hangā e koe he whare mōna; koia te ngākau o tāu pononga i anga ai ki te īnoi ki tōu aroaro. 26 Nā, ko koe, e Ihowā, te Atua, ā, kua kōrerotia e koe tēnei mea pai ki tāu pononga. 27 Ā, kua pai tēnei koe ki te manaaki i te whare o tāu pononga, kia pūmau tonu ai ki tōu aroaro; ko koe hoki hei manaaki, e Ihowā, ā, ka manaakitia ake ake."