2 Samuel 7:1-9 ▼

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?’”’

8 So now, thus you shall say to My servant David, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, “I Myself took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people Israel.

9 And I have been with you wherever you have gone and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a great name, like the name of the great men who are on the earth.