1 Chronicles 17:1-5 ▼

1 When David had settled into his palace, he said to the prophet Nathan, “Look! I am living in a cedar house while the ark of the LORD’s covenant is under tent curtains.”

2 So Nathan told David, “Do all that is on your mind, for God is with you.”

3 But that night the word of God came to Nathan:

4 “Go to David my servant and say, ‘This is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build me a house to dwell in.

5 From the time I brought Israel out of Egypt until today I have not dwelt in a house; instead, I have moved from one tent site to another, and from one tabernacle location to another.