1 Chronicles 17:4-6

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⁴ “Go and tell my servant David: Thus says the Lord: You shall not build me a house to live in.^{(A) 5} For I have not lived in a house since the day I brought out Israel to this very day, but I have lived in a tent and a tabernacle.^{[a](B) 6} Wherever I have moved about among all Israel, did I ever speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’^(C)