1. Now it came about when the king lived in his palace and Adonai had granted him rest from all his enemies around him,
2. that the king said to the prophet Nathan, “See now, I am living in a house of cedar, yet the ark of God remains within curtains.”
3. “Go, do all that is in your heart,” Nathan said to the king, “for Adonai is with you.”
4. But it came to pass the same night that the word of Adonai came to Nathan saying: