1. When the king lived in his house, and Yahweh had given him rest from all his enemies all around,
2. the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but God’s ark dwells within curtains.”
3. Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart; for Yahweh is with you.”
4. That same night, Yahweh’s word came to Nathan, saying,
5. “Go and tell my servant David, ‘Yahweh says, “Should you build me a house for me to dwell in?
6. For I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought the children of Israel up out of Egypt, even to this day, but have moved around in a tent and in a tabernacle.