1. When the king was settled in his palace, and the Lord had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies,
2. the king said to the prophet Nathan, "Look! I’m living in a cedar palace, but God’s chest is housed in a tent!"
3. Nathan said to the king, "Go ahead and do whatever you are thinking, because the Lord is with you."
4. But that very night the Lord’s word came to Nathan:
5. Go to my servant David and tell him: This is what the Lord says: You are not the one to build the temple for me to live in.
6. In fact, I haven’t lived in a temple from the day I brought Israel out of Egypt until now. Instead, I have been traveling around in a tent and in a dwelling.