1 Chronicles 17:1-6 ▼

1 Now it happened when David inhabited his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I inhabit a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh is under tent curtains.”

2 So Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you.”

3 Now it happened in the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,

4 “Go and say to David My servant, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “You shall not build Me a house to inhabit;

5 for I have not inhabited a house since the day that I brought up Israel to this day, but I have been from tent to tent and from one dwelling place to another.

6 Wherever I have gone about with all Israel, did I speak a word with even one of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd My people, saying, ‘Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?’”’