1 Chronicles 17:4-6

Common English Bible

⁴ Go to my servant David and tell him, This is what the Lord says: You are not the one to build the temple^[a] for me to live in. ⁵ In fact, I haven’t lived in a temple from the day I brought Israel out until this very day. I’ve been traveling from tent to tent and from dwelling to dwelling.^{[b] 6} Throughout my traveling with the Israelites, did I ever ask one of Israel’s tribal leaders, whom I appointed to shepherd my people, Why haven’t you built me a cedar temple?