2 Samuel 7:5-7
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5 Go and tell David my servant, Thus says the Lord: Is it you who would build me a house to dwell in?(A) 6 I have never dwelt in a house from the day I brought Israel up from Egypt to this day, but I have been going about in a tent or a tabernacle. 7 As long as I have wandered about among the Israelites, did I ever say a word to any of the judges whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel: Why have you not built me a house of cedar?
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1 Chronicles 22:7-8
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7 (A)David said to Solomon: “My son, it was my purpose to build a house myself for the name of the Lord, my God. 8 But this word of the Lord came to me: You have shed much blood, and you have waged great wars. You may not build a house for my name, because you have shed too much blood upon the earth in my sight.
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