2. Then Nathan said to David, Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you.
3. And that same night the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
4. Go and tell David My servant, Thus says the Lord: You shall not build Me a house to dwell in,
5. For I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up Israel from Egypt until this day; but I have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another.
6. Wherever I have walked with all Israel, did I say a word to any of the judges of Israel whom I commanded to feed My people, saying, Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?
7. Now therefore, thus shall you say to My servant David, Thus says the Lord of hosts: I took you from the sheepfold, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over My people Israel.