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2 Samuel 7:5

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“Go and tell my servant David, ‘Yahweh says, “Should you build me a house for me to dwell in?

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2 Samuel 7:5 in other translations

Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith Jehovah, Shalt thou build me a house for me to dwell in?

2 Samuel 7:5 · American Standard Version

2 Samuel 7:5 in context

  1. 3Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart; for Yahweh is with you.”
  2. 4That same night, Yahweh’s word came to Nathan, saying,
  3. 5“Go and tell my servant David, ‘Yahweh says, “Should you build me a house for me to dwell in?
  4. 6For I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought the children of Israel up out of Egypt, even to this day, but have moved around in a tent and in a tabernacle.
  5. 7In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel, did I say a word to any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’ ” ’