“Go and tell my servant David, ‘This is what the Lord says: You are not the one to build me a house to dwell in.5 I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought Israel up out of Egypt to this day. I have moved from one tent site to another, from one dwelling place to another. 6 Wherever I have moved with all the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their leaders[a]whom I commanded to shepherd my people, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?”’
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