5
Go and tell my servant David: Thus says the Lord: Are you the one to build me a house to live in?
6
I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent and a tabernacle.
7
Wherever I have moved about among all the people of Israel, did I ever speak a word with any of the tribal leaders a of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, "Why have you not built me a house of cedar?"
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