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1 Chronicles 17:4

““Go and tell My servant David that this is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build Me a house in which to dwell.”
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2And Nathan replied to David, “Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you.”

3But that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying,

4“Go and tell My servant David that this is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build Me a house in which to dwell.

5For I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought Israel up out of Egypt until this day, but I have moved from tent to tent and dwelling to dwelling.

6In all My journeys with all the Israelites, have I ever asked any of the leaders I appointed to shepherd My people, ‘Why haven’t you built Me a house of cedar?’

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