1 Chronicles 17:5

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].

1 Chronicles 17:5 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 17:5

(See Gill on 1 Chronicles 17:1).

1 Chronicles 17:5 In-Context

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?'" '

7 So now, thus you shall say to my servant David, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, "I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be leader over my people Israel,