1 Chronicles 17:1-8 ▼

1 It happened, when David lived in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, |Look, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under curtains.|

2 Nathan said to David, |Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you.|

3 It happened the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,

4 |Go and tell David my servant, 'Thus says the LORD, |You shall not build me a house to dwell in;

5 for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel to this day, but have gone about from tent to tent, and from tabernacle [to tabernacle].

6 In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, 'Why have you not built me a house of cedar?'|'

7 |Now therefore, you shall tell my servant David, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, |I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel.

8 I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.