2 Samuel 7:5
“Go, and you have said to My servant, to David, Thus said YHWH: Do you build for Me a house for My dwelling in?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?
In Context
4And it comes to pass in that night, that the word of YHWH is to Nathan, saying,
Cross References
1 Kings 5:3“You have known my father David, that he has not been able to build a house for the Name of his God YHWH, because of the wars that have been all around him, until YHWH’s putting them under the soles of his feet.
1 Kings 8:16From the day that I brought out My people, even Israel, from Egypt, I have not fixed on a city out of all the tribes of Israel, to build a house for My Name being there; and I fix on David to be over My people Israel.
1 Chronicles 22:7and David says to his son Solomon, “As for me, it has been with my heart to build a house for the Name of my God YHWH,
1 Chronicles 28:3and God has said to me, You do not build a house for My Name, for you [are] a man of wars, and you have shed blood.
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 7:5-18
God's Covenant with David. ( b. c. 1042.) 4 And it came to pass that night, that the word of the Lord came unto Nathan, saying, 5 Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the Lord , Shalt thou build me a house for me to dwell in? 6 Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle. 7 In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of… Read the whole commentary →