God’s Covenant with David

7 Now when the king was settled in his house and the Lord had given him rest from all his enemies around him,^(A)

²⁷ For you, O Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have made this revelation to your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house’; therefore your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you.^(A)

¹⁶ Then the Lord raised up judges who delivered them out of the power of those who plundered them.^(A)

⁹ But they forgot the Lord their God, and he sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the army of King Jabin of^[a] Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.^{(A) 10} Then they cried to the Lord and said, ‘We have sinned, for we have forsaken the Lord and have served the Baals and the Astartes, but now rescue us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve you.’^{(B) 11} And the Lord sent Jerubbaal and Barak,^[b] and Jephthah, and Samson^[c] and rescued you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and you lived in safety.^(C)

²⁸ Please forgive the trespass of your servant, for the Lord will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord is fighting the battles of the Lord, and evil shall not be found in you so long as you live.^(A)