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:
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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:
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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 17:5
For from the day when I took Israel up, till this day, I have had no house, but have gone from tent to tent, and from living-place to living-place.
1 Chronicles 17:6
In all the places where I have gone with all Israel, did I ever say to any of the judges of Israel, whom I made the keepers of my people, Why have you not made for me a house of cedar?
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1 Chronicles 17:7
So now, say to my servant David, The Lord of armies says, I took you from the fields, from keeping sheep, so that you might be a ruler over my people Israel;
1 Chronicles 17:10
From the time when I put judges over my people Israel; and I will overcome all those who are against you; and I will make you great and the head of a line of kings.
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1 Chronicles 17:12
He will be the builder of my house, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever.
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1 Chronicles 17:11
And when the time comes for you to go to your fathers, I will put in your place your seed after you, one of your sons, and I will make his kingdom strong.
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