⁵ “Go and say to My servant David, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “^(A)Are you the one who would build Me a house to inhabit? ⁶ For ^(B)I have not inhabited a house since the day I brought up the sons of Israel from Egypt, even to this day; but I have been going about ^(C)in a tent, even in a ^[a]tabernacle. ^7 (D)Wherever I have gone about with all the sons of Israel, did I speak a word with one of the tribes of Israel, ^(E)which I commanded to shepherd My people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?’”’

^4 (A)Do not trust in lying words, saying, ‘^[a]This is the temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh.’

^20 (A)Our fathers worshiped on ^(B)this mountain, and you people say that ^(C)in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.” ²¹ Jesus *said to her, “Woman, believe Me, ^(D)an hour is coming when ^(E)neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

⁴⁸ However, ^(A)the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands, as the prophet says: