1. When David had settled into his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, “Look! I am living in a cedar house while the ark of the Lord’s covenant is under tent curtains.”
2. So Nathan told David, “Do all that is on your heart, for God is with you.”
3. But that night the word of God came to Nathan:
4. “Go to David My servant and say, ‘This is what the Lord says: You are not the one to build Me a house to dwell in.