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2 Samuel 7:5

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“Go and tell my servant David, ‘Yahweh says, “Should you build me a house for me to dwell in?

Context

2the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but God’s ark dwells within curtains.”
3Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart; for Yahweh is with you.”
4That same night, Yahweh’s word came to Nathan, saying,
5“Go and tell my servant David, ‘Yahweh says, “Should you build me a house for me to dwell in?
6For I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought the children of Israel up out of Egypt, even to this day, but have moved around in a tent and in a tabernacle.
7In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel)), did I say a word to any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’ ” ’
8Now therefore tell my servant David this, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people, over Israel.

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