2 Samuel 7:5-7
Read 2 Samuel 7 in full →5“Go and say to My servant David, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “aAre you the one who would build Me a house to inhabit? 6“For aI have not inhabited a house since the day I brought up the sons of Israel from Egypt, even to this day; but I have been going about bin a tent, even in a 1tabernacle. 7“aWherever I have gone about with all the sons of Israel, did I speak a word with one of the tribes of Israel, bwhich I commanded to shepherd My people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?’”’