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Nathan said to David, "Do all that you have in mind, for God is with you."
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But that same night the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying:
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Go and tell my servant David: Thus says the Lord: You shall not build me a house to live in.
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For I have not lived in a house since the day I brought out Israel to this very day, but I have lived in a tent and a tabernacle.
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Wherever I have moved about among all Israel, did I ever speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, Why have you not built me a house of cedar?