Chronicles I 17:4

4 Go and say to David my servant, Thus said the Lord, Thou shalt not build me a house for me to dwell in it.

Chronicles I 17:4 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 17:4

(See Gill on 1 Chronicles 17:1).

Chronicles I 17:4 In-Context

2 And Nathan said to David, Do all that is in thy heart; for God with thee.

3 And it came to pass in that night, that the word of the Lord came to Nathan, ,

4 Go and say to David my servant, Thus said the Lord, Thou shalt not build me a house for me to dwell in it.

5 For I have not dwelt in a house from the day that I brought up Israel until this day, but I have been in a tabernacle and a tent,

6 in all places through which I have gone with all Israel: did I ever speak to one tribe of Israel whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, that ye have not built me a house of cedar?