2 Samuel 7:5-7

New American Standard Bible 1995

⁵ “Go and say to My servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord, “^(A)Are you the one who should build Me a house to dwell in? ⁶ For ^(B)I have not dwelt in a house since the day I brought up the sons of Israel from Egypt, even to this day; but I have been moving about ^(C)in a tent, even in a ^[a]tabernacle. ^7 (D)Wherever I have gone with all the sons of Israel, did I speak a word with one of the tribes of Israel, ^(E)which I commanded to shepherd My people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?’”’