1 Chronicles 17:1-5 And it happened, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Behold, I am living in a house of cedars, and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah is under curtains.

LITV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And it happened, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Behold, I am living in a house of cedars, and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah is under curtains. ² And Nathan said to David, Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you. ³ And it happened on that night, the word of God came to Nathan, saying, ⁴ Go, and you shall say to My servant David, So says Jehovah, You shall not build a house for Me to dwell in; ⁵ for I have not dwelt in a house from the day that I brought Israel up until this day, but I have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another .