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But it happened that night,[a] the word of Yahweh came[b] to Nathan, saying, “Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says Yahweh: “Are you the one to build for me a house for my dwelling? For I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought up the Israelites[c] from Egypt until this day; rather, I was going about in a tent and in a tabernacle.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 7:4 Literally “in the night the that”
  2. 2 Samuel 7:4 Hebrew “was”
  3. 2 Samuel 7:6 Literally “sons/children of Israel”