1 Chronicles 17:1-8 ▼

1 Now when David settled in his house, David said to the prophet Nathan, “I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under a tent.”

2 Nathan said to David, “Do all that you have in mind, for God is with you.”

3 But that same night the word of the LORD came to Nathan, saying:

4 Go and tell my servant David: Thus says the LORD: You shall not build me a house to live in.

5 For I have not lived in a house since the day I brought out Israel to this very day, but I have lived in a tent and a tabernacle.

6 Wherever I have moved about among all Israel, did I ever speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, Why have you not built me a house of cedar?

7 Now therefore thus you shall say to my servant David: Thus says the LORD of hosts: I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people Israel;

8 and I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies before you; and I will make for you a name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.