1 Chronicles 17:3-5

Expanded Bible

³ But that night God spoke his word to Nathan, saying, ⁴ “Go and tell David my servant, ‘·This is what the Lord says [^TThus says the Lord]: You are not the person to build a house for me to live in. ⁵ From the time I brought Israel ·out of [^Lup from] Egypt until now I have not lived in a house. I have moved from one tent site to another and ·from one place to another [or lived in a Tabernacle].