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2 Samuel 7:3
And Nathan said to the king, Go and do whatever is in your heart; for the Lord is with you.

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2 Samuel 7:2
The king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is housed inside the curtains of a tent.

1 Kings 8:17
Now it was in the heart of David my father to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

1 Chronicles 17:1
Now when David was living in his house, he said to Nathan the prophet, See, I am living in a house of cedar-wood, but the ark of the Lord's agreement is under the curtains of a tent.

1 Chronicles 17:2
And Nathan said to David, Do whatever is in your heart, for God is with you.

1 Chronicles 17:3
But that same night, the word of God came to Nathan, saying,

1 Chronicles 17:4
Go and say to David my servant, The Lord says, You are not to make me a house for my living-place:

1 Chronicles 22:7
And David said to Solomon, My son, it was my desire to put up a house for the name of the Lord my God.

1 Chronicles 28:2
Then David the king got up and said, Give ear to me, my brothers and my people; it was my desire to put up a house, a resting-place for the ark of the Lord's agreement, and for the foot-rest of our God; and I had got material ready for the building of it.

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2 Samuel 12:1
And the Lord sent Nathan to David. And Nathan came to him and said, There were two men in the same town: one a man of great wealth, and the other a poor man.

2 Samuel 12:2
The man of wealth had great numbers of flocks and herds;

2 Samuel 12:3
But the poor man had only one little she-lamb, which he had got and taken care of: from its birth it had been with him like one of his children; his meat was its food, and from his cup it took its drink, resting in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him.

2 Samuel 12:4
Now a traveller came to the house of the man of wealth, but he would not take anything from his flock or his herd to make a meal for the traveller who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb and made it ready for the man who had come.

2 Samuel 12:5
And David was full of wrath against that man; and he said to Nathan, By the living Lord, death is the right punishment for the man who has done this:

2 Samuel 12:6
And he will have to give back four times the value of the lamb, because he has done this and because he had no pity.

2 Samuel 12:7
And Nathan said to David, You are that man. The Lord God of Israel says, I made you king over Israel, putting holy oil on you, and I kept you safe from the hands of Saul;

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2 Kings 4:27
And when she came to where the man of God was on the hill, she put her hands round his feet; and Gehazi came near with the purpose of pushing her away; but the man of God said, Let her be, for her soul is bitter in her; and the Lord has kept it secret from me, and has not given me word of it.

1 Samuel 16:6
Now when they came, looking at Eliab, he said, Clearly the man of the Lord's selection is before him.

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