2 Samuel 7:7-9

New King James Version

⁷ Wherever I have ^(A)moved about with all the children of Israel, have I ever spoken a word to anyone from the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded ^(B)to shepherd My people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?’ ” ’ ⁸ Now therefore, thus shall you say to My servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: ^(C)“I took you from the sheepfold, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people, over Israel. ⁹ And ^(D)I have been with you wherever you have gone, ^(E)and have ^[a]cut off all your enemies from before you, and have made you a great name, like the name of the great men who are on the earth.