1. AS DAVID sat in his house, he said to Nathan the prophet, Behold, I dwell in a house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the Lord remains under tent curtains.
2. Then Nathan said to David, Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you.
3. And that same night the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
4. Go and tell David My servant, Thus says the Lord: You shall not build Me a house to dwell in,
5. For I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up Israel from Egypt until this day; but I have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another.