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When David was settled in his palace, he summoned Nathan the prophet. “Look,” David said, “I am living in a beautiful cedar palace, but the Ark of the LORD ’s Covenant is out there under a tent!”
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Nathan replied to David, “Do whatever you have in mind, for God is with you.”
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“Go and tell my servant David, ‘This is what the LORD has declared: You are not the one to build a house for me to live in.
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I have never lived in a house, from the day I brought the Israelites out of Egypt until this very day. My home has always been a tent, moving from one place to another in a Tabernacle.