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1 Chronicles 17:4-6
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1 Chronicles 17:4-6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
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)
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- 17.5 Gk: Heb but I have been from tent to tent and from tabernacle
1 Chronicles 17:4-6
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1 Chronicles 17:4-6
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4 “Go and tell my servant David, ‘This is what the Lord says: You(A) are not the one to build me a house to dwell in. 5 I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought Israel up out of Egypt to this day. I have moved from one tent site to another, from one dwelling place to another. 6 Wherever I have moved with all the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their leaders[a] whom I commanded to shepherd my people, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?(B)”’
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- 1 Chronicles 17:6 Traditionally judges; also in verse 10
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