And it came to pass when the king sat in his house, and the Lord had given him an inheritance on every side [free] from all his enemies round about him;

that the king said to Nathan the prophet, Behold now, I live in a house of cedar, and the ark of the Lord dwells in the midst of a tent.

And it came to pass in that night, that the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying,

For I have not dwelt in a house from the day that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt to this day, but I have been walking in a lodge and in a tent,

And now thus shall you say to My servant David: Thus says the Lord Almighty, I took you from the sheepfold, that you should be a prince over My people, over Israel.

And I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and I will plant them, and they shall dwell by themselves, and shall be distressed no longer; and the son of iniquity shall afflict them no longer, as he [has done] from the beginning,

And it shall come to pass when your days have been fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, that I will raise up your seed after you, even from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.

I will be to him a father, and he shall be to Me a son. And when he happens to transgress, then will I chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the sons of men.

And his house shall be made sure, and his kingdom forever before Me, and his throne shall be established forever.

And it came into the heart of David my father, to build a house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.

Nevertheless you shall not build the house; for your son who shall come forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for My name.

I, Nebuchadnezzar, was thriving in my house, and prospering.

After the twelfth month, as he walked in his palace in Babylon,

the king answered and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for a royal residence, by the might of my power, for the honor of my glory?

And the rest of the acts of David, the former and the latter, are written in the history of Samuel the seer, and in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the history of Gad the seer,

And the Lord sent Nathan the prophet to David; and he went in to him, and said to him, There were two men in one city, one rich and the other poor.

And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and called his name Jedidiah, for the Lord's sake.

But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men of David, did not follow Adonijah.

Behold, Nathan the prophet [is here]. And he came in to the king's presence, and bowed down to the king with his face to the ground.

and the king has sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they have mounted him on the king's mule;

AndHiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar timbers, and masons, and carpenters, to build a house for him.

Shall you reign because you are provoked with your father Ahaz? They shall not eat, and they shall not drink: it is better for you to execute justice and righteousness.

Is it time for you to dwell in your paneled houses, whereas Our house is desolate?

You looked for much, and there came little; and it was brought into the house, and I blew it away. Therefore thus says the Lord Almighty, Because My house is desolate, and you run everyone into his own house;

until I find a place for the Lord, a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

who found favor before God and asked [opportunity] to find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

For I have not dwelt in a house from the day that I brought up Israel until this day, but I have been in a tabernacle and a tent,

And [David] made for himself houses in the City of David, and he prepared a place for the ark of God, and made a tent for it.

So they brought in the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tabernacle which David pitched for it; and they offered whole burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.

And he stretched out the curtains over the tabernacle, and put the veil of the tabernacle on it above as the Lord commanded Moses.

And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and put on [it] the covering of the veil, and covered the ark of the Testimony, as the Lord commanded Moses.

And they brought the ark of the Lord, and set it in its place in the midst of the tabernacle which David pitched for it. And David offered whole burnt offerings before the Lord, [and] peace offerings.

But David had brought up the ark of God out of the city of Kirjath Jearim; for David had prepared a place for it, for he had pitched a tabernacle for it in Jerusalem.