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The Ark of God Inhabits a Tent

17 (A)Now it happened when David inhabited his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I inhabit a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh is under tent curtains.” So Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you.”

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God’s promise to David

17 When David was settled into his palace,[a] he said to the prophet Nathan, “I’m living in a cedar palace while the chest containing the Lord’s covenant is under curtains.”

Nathan replied, “Go ahead and do whatever you are thinking, because God is with you.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 17:1 Or, here and elsewhere in this chapter, house