1. When the king had settled into his palace and the Lord had given him rest on every side from all his enemies,
2. the king said to Nathan the prophet, “Look, I am living in a cedar house while the ark of God sits inside tent curtains.”
3. So Nathan told the king, “Go and do all that is on your heart, for the Lord is with you.”
4. But that night the word of the Lord came to Nathan: