2 Samuel 7:1-7 ▼

1 Now it happened when the king inhabited his house, and Yahweh had given him rest on every side from all his enemies,

2 that the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I inhabit a house of cedar, but the ark of God inhabits tent curtains.”

3 So Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart, for Yahweh is with you.”

4 Now it happened in the same night, that the word of Yahweh came to Nathan, saying,

5 “Go and say to My servant David, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “Are you the one who would build Me a house to inhabit?

6 For I have not inhabited a house since the day I brought up the sons of Israel from Egypt, even to this day; but I have been going about in a tent, even in a tabernacle.

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