Bible Verses About Private Prayer: David

Then David the king went in, and sat before the LORD; and he said, “Who am I, Lord the LORD, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?

This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord GOD; but you have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come; and this after the way of men, Lord GOD!

What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, Lord GOD.

For your word’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it.

Therefore you are great, LORD God. For there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make himself a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeem to yourself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

You established for yourself your people Israel to be a people to you forever; and you, LORD, became their God.

Now, LORD God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken.

Let your name be magnified forever, saying, ‘The LORD of Hosts is God over Israel; and the house of your servant David shall be established before you.’

For you, LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house.’ Therefore your servant has found in his heart to pray this prayer to you.

“Now, O Lord GOD, you are God, and your words are truth, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.

Now therefore let it please you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Lord GOD, have spoken it. Let the house of your servant be blessed forever with your blessing.”