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2 Samuel 7:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Samuel 7:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 “Go and tell my servant David: Thus says the Lord: Are you the one to build me a house to live in? 6 I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent and a tabernacle. 7 Wherever I have moved about among all the people of Israel, did I ever speak a word with any of the tribal leaders[a] of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’(A)
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- 7.7 Or any of the tribes
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