David Plans to Build a Temple

(A)Now it came about, when the king lived in his house, and the Lord had given him rest on every side from all his enemies, that the king said to (B)Nathan the prophet, “See now, I live in (C)a house of cedar, but the ark of God (D)remains within the tent.” Nathan said to the king, “(E)Go, do all that is in your mind, for the Lord is with you.”

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God’s Covenant with David

Now when the king was settled in his house and the Lord had given him rest from all his enemies around him,(A) the king said to the prophet Nathan, “See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God stays in a tent.”(B) Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that you have in mind, for the Lord is with you.”(C)

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