2 Samuel 7:5-9 ▼

5 |Go and tell my servant David, 'Thus says the LORD, |Shall you build me a house for me to dwell in?

6 For I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have moved around in a tent and in a tabernacle.

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

8 Now therefore you shall tell my servant David this, '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.

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