1 Chronicles 17:10
New International Version
and have done ever since the time I appointed leaders over my people Israel. I will also subdue all your enemies. “’I declare to you that the LORD will build a house for you:

New Living Translation
starting from the time I appointed judges to rule my people Israel. And I will defeat all your enemies. “‘Furthermore, I declare that the LORD will build a house for you—a dynasty of kings!

English Standard Version
from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover, I declare to you that the LORD will build you a house.

Berean Standard Bible
and have done since the day I appointed judges over My people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover, I declare to you that the LORD will build a house for you.

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
since the time that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel. Also I will subdue all your enemies. Furthermore I tell you that the LORD will build you a house.

New American Standard Bible
even from the day that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover, I tell you that the LORD will build a house for you.

NASB 1995
even from the day that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover, I tell you that the LORD will build a house for you.

NASB 1977
even from the day that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover, I tell you that the LORD will build a house for you.

Legacy Standard Bible
even from the day that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. And I tell you that Yahweh will build a house for you.

Amplified Bible
since the time that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel. And I will humble and subdue all your enemies. “Furthermore, I tell you that the LORD will build you a house (a blessed posterity).

Christian Standard Bible
ever since the day I ordered judges to be over my people Israel. I will also subdue all your enemies. “ ‘Furthermore, I declare to you that the LORD himself will build a house for you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
ever since the day I ordered judges to be over My people Israel. I will also subdue all your enemies.” Furthermore, I declare to you that the LORD Himself will build a house for you.

American Standard Version
and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will subdue all thine enemies. Moreover I tell thee that Jehovah will build thee a house.

Contemporary English Version
when I let judges rule my people, and I will keep your enemies from attacking you. Now I promise that like you, your descendants will be kings.

English Revised Version
and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will subdue all thine enemies. Moreover I tell thee that the LORD will build thee an house.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
ever since I appointed judges to rule my people Israel. I will crush all your enemies. I even tell you that I, the LORD, will build a house for you.

International Standard Version
during the time I had commanded judges to administer my people Israel. I'll also grant you deliverance from all your enemies. "'"I'm also announcing to you that the LORD also will himself build a house for you.

Majority Standard Bible
and have done since the day I appointed judges over My people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover, I declare to you that the LORD will build a house for you.

NET Bible
and during the time when I appointed judges to lead my people Israel. I will subdue all your enemies. "'"I declare to you that the LORD will build a dynastic house for you!

New Heart English Bible
and from the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that the LORD will build you a house.

Webster's Bible Translation
And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. Moreover, I will subdue all thy enemies. Furthermore, I tell thee that the LORD will build thee a house.

World English Bible
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.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
indeed, even from the days that I appointed judges over My people Israel. And I have humbled all your enemies, and I declare to you that YHWH builds a house for you.

Young's Literal Translation
yea, even from the days that I appointed judges over My people Israel. 'And I have humbled all thine enemies, and I declare to thee that a house doth Jehovah build for thee,

Smith's Literal Translation
And to the days which I commanded judges over my people Israel; and I brought low all thine enemies. And I will announce to thee, and Jehovah will build a house to thee.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Since the days that I gave judges to my people Israel, and have humbled all thy enemies. And I declare to thee, that the Lord will build thee a house.

Catholic Public Domain Version
from the days when I gave judges to my people Israel, and I humbled all your enemies. Therefore, I announce to you that the Lord will build a house for you.

New American Bible
and during all the time when I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover, I declare to you that the LORD will build you a house:

New Revised Standard Version
from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel; and I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I declare to you that the LORD will build you a house.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
And since the day that I made you a judge over my people Israel, I have given you rest from all your enemies. Moreover the LORD has declared to you that the kingdom is established for ever.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
From the day that I made you Judge over my people Israel, and I have given you rest from all your enemies, and LORD JEHOVAH has shown you that the Kingdom is established for you until eternity
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
even from the day that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel; and I will subdue all thine enemies. Moreover I tell thee that the LORD will build thee a house.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and from the days when I appointed judges over my people Israel. Also I have humbled all thine enemies, and I will increase thee, and the Lord will build thee a house.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
God's Covenant with David
9And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning 10and have done since the day I appointed judges over My people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover, I declare to you that the LORD will build a house for you. 11And when your days are fulfilled and you go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom.…

Cross References
2 Samuel 7:11
and have done since the day I appointed judges over My people Israel. I will give you rest from all your enemies. The LORD declares to you that He Himself will establish a house for you.

2 Samuel 7:12-16
And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom. / He will build a house for My Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. / I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men. ...

2 Samuel 7:25-29
And now, O LORD God, confirm forever the word You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house. Do as You have promised, / so that Your name will be magnified forever when it is said, ‘The LORD of Hosts is God over Israel.’ And the house of Your servant David will be established before You. / For You, O LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed this to Your servant when You said, ‘I will build a house for you.’ Therefore Your servant has found the courage to offer this prayer to You. ...

Psalm 89:3-4
You said, “I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant: / ‘I will establish your offspring forever and build up your throne for all generations.’” Selah

Psalm 89:20-24
I have found My servant David; with My sacred oil I have anointed him. / My hand will sustain him; surely My arm will strengthen him. / No enemy will exact tribute; no wicked man will oppress him. ...

Psalm 89:28-29
I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast. / I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure.

Psalm 89:34-37
I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips. / Once and for all I have sworn by My holiness—I will not lie to David— / his offspring shall endure forever, and his throne before Me like the sun, ...

Isaiah 9:6-7
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. / Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.

Isaiah 55:3
Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David.

Jeremiah 23:5-6
Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness in the land. / In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is His name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.

Jeremiah 33:14-17
Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will fulfill the gracious promise that I have spoken to the house of Israel and the house of Judah. / In those days and at that time I will cause to sprout for David a righteous Branch, and He will administer justice and righteousness in the land. / In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely, and this is the name by which it will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness. ...

Ezekiel 34:23-24
I will appoint over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them. He will feed them and be their shepherd. / I, the LORD, will be their God, and My servant David will be a prince among them. I, the LORD, have spoken.

Ezekiel 37:24-25
My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow My ordinances and keep and observe My statutes. / They will live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They will live there forever with their children and grandchildren, and My servant David will be their prince forever.

Luke 1:32-33
He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David, / and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever. His kingdom will never end!”

Luke 1:68-75
“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has visited and redeemed His people. / He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David, / as He spoke through His holy prophets, those of ages past, ...


Treasury of Scripture

And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all your enemies. Furthermore I tell you that the LORD will build you an house.

And since

Judges 2:14-18
And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies…

Judges 3:8
Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years.

Judges 4:3
And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.

Moreover

Psalm 18:40
Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.

Psalm 21:8,9
Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee…

Psalm 89:23
And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.

the Lord

Exodus 1:21
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.

2 Samuel 7:11
And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house.

Psalm 127:1
A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

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1 Chronicles 17
1. Nathan first approving the purpose of David, to build God a house
3. after by the word of God forbids him
11. He promises him blessings and benefits in his seed
16. David's prayer and thanksgiving














and have done since the day I appointed judges over My people Israel.
This phrase refers to the period of the Judges, a time when Israel was led by judges rather than kings. This era began after the death of Joshua and continued until the establishment of the monarchy with Saul. The judges were leaders raised by God to deliver Israel from oppression and to guide them spiritually and politically. This period is marked by a cycle of sin, oppression, repentance, and deliverance, as recorded in the Book of Judges. The appointment of judges signifies God's direct involvement in the leadership of Israel, emphasizing His sovereignty and care for His people. This historical context highlights the transition from a theocratic system to a monarchy, setting the stage for the Davidic covenant.

And I will subdue all your enemies.
This promise of subduing enemies is a reassurance of divine protection and victory. Throughout Israel's history, they faced numerous adversaries, including the Philistines, Moabites, and Ammonites. God's promise to subdue these enemies underscores His role as a divine warrior and protector of Israel. This assurance is not only a promise of physical victory but also a spiritual one, foreshadowing the ultimate defeat of sin and death through Jesus Christ. The subduing of enemies can be seen as a type of Christ's victory over spiritual adversaries, as referenced in passages like Colossians 2:15, where Christ disarms the powers and authorities.

Moreover, I declare to you that the LORD will build a house for you.
This declaration is a pivotal moment in the Davidic covenant, where God promises to establish David's dynasty. The "house" refers not to a physical building but to a lasting lineage and kingdom. This promise is fulfilled in the establishment of the Davidic line, culminating in the birth of Jesus Christ, who is often referred to as the Son of David. The concept of God building a house for David contrasts with David's desire to build a temple for God, highlighting God's initiative and grace. This covenantal promise is foundational for understanding the messianic hope in the Old Testament, as it points to the eternal kingdom established through Christ, as seen in passages like Luke 1:32-33, where the angel Gabriel announces to Mary that her son will inherit the throne of David.

Persons / Places / Events
1. David
The King of Israel, to whom God is speaking through the prophet Nathan. David desires to build a temple for the Lord, but God has other plans.

2. Nathan
The prophet who delivers God's message to David. Nathan plays a crucial role as God's spokesperson in this account.

3. Israel
The nation chosen by God, over which David reigns as king. The history of Israel is marked by God's covenantal relationship with His people.

4. Judges
Leaders appointed by God to guide and deliver Israel before the establishment of the monarchy. This reference highlights God's ongoing provision and protection for Israel.

5. Enemies
The adversaries of Israel whom God promises to subdue, ensuring peace and security for His people.
Teaching Points
God's Sovereignty and Faithfulness
God is in control and faithful to His promises. He has a plan for His people that surpasses human understanding and desires.

Divine Timing and Purpose
God's timing is perfect. While David had a noble desire to build a temple, God had a greater plan to establish an eternal dynasty through David's lineage.

Security in God's Promises
Believers can find security in God's promises, knowing that He will subdue their spiritual enemies and provide peace.

Covenant Relationship
The relationship between God and His people is based on His covenant promises, which are fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

Legacy of Faith
Like David, believers are called to leave a legacy of faith, trusting in God's promises for future generations.(10) And since the time that I commanded judges.--Heb., from days that . . . Samuel, more definitely, "from the day that I appointed judges ever my people." This whole clause should not have been separated from 1Chronicles 17:9, which it properly concludes. The allusion is to the oppressions undergone in the period of the judges, and the troubles of the former reign.

Moreover (and) I will subdue all thine enemies.--A continuation of the promises at the beginning of 1Chronicles 17:9. "I will subdue the foes of the king, as I subdued the foes of the shepherd and the outlaw." (Comp. 1Chronicles 17:8.) Instead of this, Samuel has, "And I will give thee rest from all thy enemies."

Furthermore I tell thee . . .--Literally, And I have told thee, and a house will Jehovah build thee;" that is, I have foretold it. (Comp. Isaiah 40:21; Isaiah 45:21.) That which follows is a sort of ironical inversion of David's wish to build a house for the Lord. The term "house" is figurative (offspring), as in Psalm 127:1. (Comp. Genesis 30:3.) The reading of Samuel is, "And Jehovah hath [now] told thee [by my mouth] that a house will Jehovah make for thee." This looks original, with its rare construction of the perfect, which the chronicler has altered; its repetition of the most holy Name; and its less exact "make," which Chronicles improves into "build," with an eye to 1Chronicles 17:4; 1Chronicles 17:6, as well as to the play on the word (b?n?h, build; b?nim, sons). . . .

Verse 10. - This verse should read on continuously with the preceding, as far as to the word "enemies." The time here denoted will stretch from the people's occupation of the laud to the death of Saul, as the expression, "at the beginning," in ver. 9, will point to the experience of Egyptian oppression. Will build thee an house; i.e. will guarantee thee an unfailing line of descendants.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
and [have done] since the day
וּלְמִיָּמִ֗ים (ū·lə·mî·yā·mîm)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l, Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 3117: A day

I appointed
צִוִּ֤יתִי (ṣiw·wî·ṯî)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 6680: To lay charge (upon), give charge (to), command, order

judges
שֹֽׁפְטִים֙ (šō·p̄ə·ṭîm)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 8199: To judge, pronounce sentence, to vindicate, punish, to govern, to litigate

over
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

My people
עַמִּ֣י (‘am·mî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

Israel.
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

And I will subdue
וְהִכְנַ֖עְתִּי (wə·hiḵ·na‘·tî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 3665: To bend the knee, to humiliate, vanquish

all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

your enemies.
אוֹיְבֶ֑יךָ (’ō·wy·ḇe·ḵā)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 341: Hating, an adversary

Moreover, I declare
וָאַגִּ֣ד (wā·’ag·giḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5046: To be conspicuous

to you
לָ֔ךְ (lāḵ)
Preposition | second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew

that the LORD
יְהוָֽה׃ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

will build
יִֽבְנֶה־ (yiḇ·neh-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1129: To build

a house
וּבַ֖יִת (ū·ḇa·yiṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1004: A house

for you.
לְּךָ֥ (lə·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew


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