_🌿4TH SUNDAY OF ADVENT 20 December, 2020_
*FIRST READING*
_The kingdom of David shall be established before the LORD for ever._
*A reading from the Second Book of Samuel (7:1-5, 8b-12, 14a, 16)*
When King David lived in his house and the LORD had given him rest from
all his surrounding enemies, the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now,
I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent.” And Nathan
said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart, for the LORD is with you.”
But that same night the word of the LORD came to Nathan, “Go and tell my
servant David, ‘Thus says the LORD: would you build me a house to dwell
in? Thus, says the LORD of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following
the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel. And I have been
with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before
you. And I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of
the earth. And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them,
so that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more. And
violent men shall afflict them no more, as formerly, from the time that I
appointed judges over my people Israel. And I will give you rest from all your
enemies. Moreover, the LORD declares to you that the Lord will make you a
house. When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I
will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I
will establish his kingdom. I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a
son. And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before
me. Your throne shall be established forever.’”
*The Word of the Lord*
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