1 Chronicles 17:3-5

Lexham English Bible

³ And it happened that same night the word of God came to Nathan, saying, ⁴ “Go and say to David my servant, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “You are not to build a house for me to live in, ⁵ for I have not lived in a house from the day that I brought out Israel unto this day. I have been from tent to tent and from tabernacle to tabernacle.