1 Chronicles 17:3-5

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³ Now that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying:

⁴ Go, and speak to David my servant: Thus saith the Lord: Thou shalt not build me a house to dwell in.

⁵ For I have not remained in a house from the time that I brought up Israel, to this day: but I have been always changing places in a tabernacle, and in a tent,