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Va dire à mon serviteur David: Ainsi parle l’Eternel: Est-ce toi qui me bâtirais une maison pour que j’en fasse ma demeure? Mais je n’ai point habité dans une maison depuis le jour où j’ai fait monter les enfants d’Israël hors d’Egypte jusqu’à ce jour; j’ai voyagé sous une tente et dans un tabernacle. Partout où j’ai marché avec tous les enfants d’Israël, ai-je dit un mot à l’une des tribus d’Israël à qui j’avais ordonné de paître mon peuple d’Israël, ai-je dit: Pourquoi ne me bâtissez-vous pas une maison de cèdre?

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Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the Lord, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?

Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.

In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?

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“Go and tell My servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord: (A)“Would you build a house for Me to dwell in? For I have not dwelt in a house (B)since the time that I brought the children of Israel up from Egypt, even to this day, but have moved about in (C)a tent and in a tabernacle. Wherever I have (D)moved about with all the children of Israel, have I ever spoken a word to anyone from the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded (E)to shepherd My people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?’ ” ’

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“Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord: (A)Would you build me a house to dwell in? I have not lived in a house (B)since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about (C)in a tent for my dwelling. In all places where (D)I have moved with all the people of Israel, did I speak a word with (E)any of the judges[a] of Israel, whom I commanded (F)to shepherd my people Israel, saying, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?”’

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 7:7 Compare 1 Chronicles 17:6; Hebrew tribes