1 Chronicles 17:4-6

The Voice

Eternal One: ⁴ Go and tell My servant David the Eternal One says: You may not build a house for Me to live in; ⁵ I have never lived in a house, from the day I brought Israel out of Egypt until today. I have always moved from tent to tent, from one home to another. ⁶ In all these places where I have walked with Israel, did I ever ask any of the judges I commanded to shepherd Israel, “Why have you not built for Me an expensive house of cedar?”