⁵ For I have not dwelt in a house since the time that I brought up Israel, even to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another.

⁶ For I have not dwelt in a house ^(A)since the time that I brought the children of Israel up from Egypt, even to this day, but have moved about in ^(B)a tent and in a tabernacle.

True Worship and False

66 Thus says the Lord:

¹⁶ ‘Since the day that I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I have chosen no city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house, that ^(A)My name might be there; but I chose ^(B)David to be over My people Israel.’

² “On the first day of the ^(A)first month you shall set up ^(B)the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. ^3 (C)You shall put in it the ark of the Testimony, and ^[a]partition off the ark with the veil.

God’s True Tabernacle

⁴⁴ “Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as He appointed, instructing Moses ^(A)to make it according to the pattern that he had seen, ^45 (B)which our fathers, having received it in turn, also brought with Joshua into the land possessed by the Gentiles, ^(C)whom God drove out before the face of our fathers until the ^(D)days of David, ^46 (E)who found favor before God and ^(F)asked to find a dwelling for the God of Jacob. ^47 (G)But Solomon built Him a house.

⁴⁸ “However, ^(H)the Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says:

¹⁸ “But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? ^(A)Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this ^[a]temple which I have built!

²⁷ “But ^(A)will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the ^(B)heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple which I have built!