2 Samuel 7:3-7
2 Samuel 7:3
Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your mind, for the Lord is with you.”
2 Samuel 7:4
But in the same night, the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying,
2 Samuel 7:5
“Go and say to My servant David, ‘This is what the Lord says: “Should you build Me a house for My dwelling?
2 Samuel 7:6
For I have not dwelt in a house since the day I brought up the sons of Israel from Egypt, even to this day; rather, I have been moving about in a tent, that is, in a dwelling place.
2 Samuel 7:7
Wherever I have gone with all the sons of Israel, did I speak a word with one of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd My people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?’ ” ’ God’s Covenant with David