2 Samuel 7:7-9

New American Standard Bible 1995

^7 (A)Wherever I have gone with all the sons of Israel, did I speak a word with one of the tribes of Israel, ^(B)which I commanded to shepherd My people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?’”’

God’s Covenant with David

⁸ “Now therefore, thus you shall say to My servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “^(C)I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, ^(D)to be ruler over My people Israel. ^9 (E)I have been with you wherever you have gone and ^(F)have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a great name, like the names of the great men who are on the earth.