2 Samuel 7:5-9 ▼

5 |Go and say to My servant David, 'Thus says the LORD, |Are you the one who should build Me a house to dwell in?

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

7 |Wherever I have gone 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 |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.

9 |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 names of the great men who are on the earth.