1 Chronicles 17:4

4 "Go and say to David my servant, 'Thus says Yahweh, "You [are] not to build a house 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 And Nathan said to David, "Whatever [is] in your heart, do, for God [is] with you."
3 And it happened that same night the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
4 "Go and say to David my servant, 'Thus says Yahweh, "You [are] not to build a house for me to live [in],
5 for I have not lived in a house from the day that I brought out Israel unto this day. I have been from tent to tent and from tabernacle [to tabernacle].
6 In every [place] I have moved about, did I say one word [with] the judges of Israel I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, 'Why have you not built for me a house of cedar?'" '
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