2 Samuel 7:6-8

New American Standard Bible 1995

⁶ For ^(A)I have not dwelt in a house since the day I brought up the sons of Israel from Egypt, even to this day; but I have been moving about ^(B)in a tent, even in a ^[a]tabernacle. ^7 (C)Wherever I have gone with all the sons of Israel, did I speak a word with one of the tribes of Israel, ^(D)which I commanded to shepherd My people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?’”’

God’s Covenant with David

⁸ “Now therefore, thus you shall say to My servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “^(E)I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, ^(F)to be ruler over My people Israel.