1. After David settled in his place, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Look! I am living in a house of cedar, while the Ark of the Covenant of Adonai is under a tent.”
2. Then Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you.”
3. But that same night the word of God came to Nathan, saying:
4. “Go and tell David My servant, thus says Adonai, ‘You are not to build Me a house in which to dwell.