1 Chronicles 17:2-5 New International Version Anglicized (NIVUK)

2. Nathan replied to David, ‘Whatever you have in mind, do it, for God is with you.’

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

4. ‘Go and tell my servant David, “This is what the Lord says: you are not the one to build me a house to dwell in.

5. I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought Israel up out of Egypt to this day. I have moved from one tent site to another, from one dwelling-place to another.

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