2 Samuel 7:5-7

Lexham English Bible

⁵ “Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says Yahweh: “Are you the one to build for me a house for my dwelling? ⁶ For I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought up the Israelites^[a] from Egypt until this day; rather, I was going about in a tent and in a tabernacle. ⁷ In all of my going about among all the Israelites,^[b] did I speak a word with one of the tribes of Israel whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, ‘Why did you not build me a cedar house?’”’