2 Samuel 7:5
Good News Translation
"Go and tell my servant David that I say to him, 'You are not the one to build a temple for me to live in.

New Revised Standard Version
Go and tell my servant David: Thus says the LORD: Are you the one to build me a house to live in?

Contemporary English Version
to go to David and give him this message: David, you are my servant, so listen to what I say. Why should you build a temple for me?

New American Bible
Go and tell David my servant, Thus says the LORD: Is it you who would build me a house to dwell in?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Go, and say to my servant David: Thus saith the Lord: Shalt thou build me a house to dwell in?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Go, and say to my servant David: Thus saith the Lord: Shalt thou build me a house to dwell in?

my servant David.

1 Kings 5:3 Thou knowest the will of David, my father, and that he could not build a house to the name of the Lord his God, because of the wars that were round about him, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.

1 Kings 8:16-19 Since the day that I brought my people Israel, out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel, for a house to be built, that my name might be there: but I chose David to be over my people Israel. . . .

1 Chronicles 17:4 Go, and speak to David my servant: Thus saith the Lord: Thou shalt not build me a house to dwell in.

1 Chronicles 22:7,8 And David said to Solomon: My son, it was my desire to have built a house to the name of the Lord my God. . . .

1 Chronicles 23:3 And the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years, and upwards: and there were found of them thirty-eight thousand men.

Context
God's Covenant with David
4But it came to pass that night, that the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying: 5Go, and say to my servant David: Thus saith the Lord: Shalt thou build me a house to dwell in?6Whereas I have not dwelt in a house from the day that I brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt even to this day: but have walked in a tabernacle, and in a tent.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:4
But it came to pass that night, that the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying:

1 Kings 5:3
Thou knowest the will of David, my father, and that he could not build a house to the name of the Lord his God, because of the wars that were round about him, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.

1 Kings 5:4
But now the Lord my God hath given me rest round about; and there is no adversary nor evil occurrence.

1 Kings 6:12
As for this house, which thou art building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments, walking in them, I will fulfil my word to thee, which I spoke to David thy father.

1 Kings 8:16
Since the day that I brought my people Israel, out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel, for a house to be built, that my name might be there: but I chose David to be over my people Israel.

1 Kings 8:19
Nevertheless, thou shalt not build me a house, but thy son, that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build a house to my name.

Isaiah 66:1
Thus saith the Lord: Heaven is my throne, and the earth my footstool: what is this house that you will build to me? and what is this place of my rest?

2 Samuel 7:4
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