1 Chronicles 17:4

4 "Go and tell my servant David that I say to him, "You are not the one to build a temple for me to live in.

1 Chronicles 17:4 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 17:4

(See Gill on 1 Chronicles 17:1).

1 Chronicles 17:4 In-Context

2 Nathan answered, "Do whatever you have in mind, because God is with you."

3 But that night God said to Nathan,

4 "Go and tell my servant David that I say to him, "You are not the one to build a temple for me to live in.

5 From the time I rescued the people of Israel from Egypt until now I have never lived in a temple; I have always lived in tents and moved from place to place.

6 In all my traveling with the people of Israel I never asked any of the leaders that I appointed why they had not built me a temple made of cedar.'