God told David, “Your family will be bosses for ever”

¹After David became the big boss, God kept his enemies away from Israel. So he sat down happily in his big house in Jerusalem.

²There was a man called Nathan. He told God’s messages to people. One day, David said to him, “Listen, I live here in this big fancy house, but God’s special box still lives in a tent. I want to build a proper house for that special box.”

³Nathan said, “God is looking after you. You can do anything you want to do.”

⁴But that night God gave Nathan a dream and told him a different story.

⁵He told him to say this to David,

That’s the story God told Nathan in a dream.

¹⁷Then Nathan told David everything that God said.