“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.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 1 Chronicles 17 contains 27 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.