“Go and tell my servant David, ‘The LORD says, “Should you build me a house for me to dwell in?
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Samuel 7:5 in context
2 Samuel 7:2–8
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the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but God’s ark dwells within curtains.”
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Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart, for the LORD is with you.”
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That same night, the LORD’s word came to Nathan, saying,
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“Go and tell my servant David, ‘The LORD says, “Should you build me a house for me to dwell in?
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For 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.
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In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel, did I say a word to anyone from 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?’”’
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Now therefore tell my servant David this: ‘The LORD 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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