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for I have not inhabited a house since the day that I brought up Israel to this day, (A)but I have been from tent to tent and from one [a]dwelling place to another. Wherever I have gone about with all Israel, did I speak a word (B)with even one of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd My people, saying, ‘Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?’”’

David’s House Will Be Established Forever

So now, thus shall you say to My servant David, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, “I Myself took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 17:5 Or tabernacle, cf. 2 Sam 7:6