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.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:
In Context
3Now that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying:
Cross References
1 Kings 8:19Nevertheless 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.
1 Chronicles 28:2And the king rising up, and standing said: Hear me, my brethren and my people: I had a thought to have built a house, in which the ark of the Lord, and the footstool of our God might rest: and I prepared all things for the building.
2 Chronicles 6:9But thou shalt not build the house, but thy son, who shall come out of thy loins, he shall build a house to my name.
Romans 11:33O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!
Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 17:2-16
God's Promise to David. ( b. c. 1042.) 1 Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in a house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the Lord remaineth under curtains. 2 Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God is with thee. 3 And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying, 4 Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the Lord , Thou shalt not build me a house to dwell in: 5 For I have not dwelt in… Read the whole commentary →