5. “Go, tell My servant David: Thus says Adonai: Are you to build Me a house for Me to dwell in?
6. Since the day that I brought up the children of Israel from Egypt to this day I have not dwelt in a house, but have been moving about in a tent, even in a tabernacle.
7. In all My journeying among all the children of Israel, did I ever speak a word to any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd My people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?’
8. So now, thus you shall say to My servant David: Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people, over Israel.
9. I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make your name as great as the greatest on earth.