2. And the king said to Nathan the prophet, “Look, please, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is staying in the middle of the tent.”
3. Nathan said to the king, “Go and do all that is in your heart, for Yahweh is with you.”
4. But it happened that night, the word of Yahweh came to Nathan, saying,
5. “Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says Yahweh: “Are you the one to build for me a house for my dwelling?
6. For I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought up the Israelites from Egypt until this day; rather, I was going about in a tent and in a tabernacle.