1. When the king lived in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from all his enemies all around,
2. the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but God’s ark dwells within curtains.”
3. Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart; for the Lord is with you.”
4. That same night, the Lord’s word came to Nathan, saying,
5. “Go and tell my servant David, ‘the Lord says, “Should you build me a house for me to dwell in?
6. For 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.