Explanation: 1 Chronicles 17 contains God's promise to David to give him an everlasting house and David's response to the LORD. Traditional Patriarchal Timeline. Judges. Judges Period Chronology. Kings of Judah and Israel #1. Kings of Judah and Israel #2].
     David told Nathan the prophet that he desired to build a permanent "house" (the Temple) for the LORD, instead of having His throne (the Ark of the Covenant) housed in a tent (the Tabernacle). And Nathan told David to do all that was in his heart because the LORD was with him (1-2).
     However, that night, the LORD spoke to Nathan. He told him to tell David that David's son, not David, would build a permanent house for the LORD. And the LORD promised to make the house of David and the house of his son an everlasting house (3-15).
     So David came and sat before the LORD and expressed his astonishment that God would make such promises to someone so insignificant. And he praised the LORD for his greatness and for his willingness and his power to bless, not only David, but the nation of Israel as well (16-27).
     [ Sermons: Ian Hamilton. Various. ]

     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 bought 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 [add again] to thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant. ¹⁹ O LORD, for thy servant'ssake, 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? ²² For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever [unto perpetuity]; 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 [unto perpetuity], and do as thou hast said. ²⁴ Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever [unto perpetuity], 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.

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