KJV King James Version
Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?
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2 Samuel 7:5
Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
“Go and tell My servant David that this is what the LORD says: Are you the one to build for Me a house to dwell in?
WEB World English Bible
“Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “Shall you build me a house for me to dwell in?
ASV American Standard Version
Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith Jehovah, Shalt thou build me a house for me to dwell in?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘Go, and thou hast said unto My servant, unto David, Thus said Jehovah, Dost thou build for Me a house for My dwelling in?
Surrounding context — 2 Samuel 7
2 That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.
3 And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that [is] in thine heart; for the LORD [is] with thee.
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 an 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 Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?
8 Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
לֵ֤ךְH1980 · ha.lakhto go: wentוְאָֽמַרְתָּ֙H559 · a.marto sayאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)עַבְדִּ֣יH5650 · e.vedservant/slaveאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)דָּוִ֔דH1732 · da.vidDavidכֹּ֖הH3541 · kohthusאָמַ֣רH559 · a.marto sayיְהוָ֑הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDהַאַתָּ֛הH859 · at.tahyou(m.s.)תִּבְנֶה־H1129 · ba.nahto buildלִּ֥יH9030 · nimeבַ֖יִתH1004 · betplaceלְשִׁבְתִּֽי׃H3427 · ya.shavto dwell
Cross-references
1 Chronicles 17:4Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:1 Kings 8:16-19Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.1 Chronicles 23:3-32Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.1 Kings 5:3-4Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.1 Chronicles 22:7-8And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God:
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