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2 Samuel 7:5

““Go and tell My servant David that this is what the LORD says: Are you the one to build for Me a house to dwell in?”

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³And Nathan replied to the king, “Go and do all that is in your heart, for the LORD is with you.”

⁴But that night the word of the LORD came to Nathan, saying,

⁵“Go and tell My servant David that this is what the LORD says: Are you the one to build for Me a house to dwell in?

⁶For I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought the Israelites up out of Egypt until this day, but I have moved about with a tent as My dwelling.

⁷In all My journeys with all the Israelites, have I ever asked any of the leaders I appointed to shepherd My people Israel, ‘Why haven’t you built Me a house of cedar?’

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