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Nathan replied to David, “Whatever you have in mind, do it, for God is with you.”
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But that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying:
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“Go and tell my servant David, ‘This is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build me a house to dwell in.
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I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought Israel up out of Egypt to this day. I have moved from one tent site to another, from one dwelling place to another.
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Wherever I have moved with all the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their leaders whom I commanded to shepherd my people, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?” ’