For you, O my God, have told your servant that you will build him a house: therefore your servant has found in his heart to pray before you.
Let it even be established, that your name may be magnified forever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and let the house of David your servant be established before you.
And now, LORD, you are God, and have promised this goodness unto your servant:
LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble: you will prepare their heart, you will cause your ear to hear:
Thus says the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.
Now the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came, saying,