1 Chronicles 17:3–10

³And it happened that same night the word of God came to Nathan, saying, ⁴“Go and say to David my servant, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “You are not to build a house for me to live in, ⁵for I have not lived in a house from the day that I brought out Israel unto this day. I have been from tent to tent and from tabernacle to tabernacle. ⁶In every place I have moved about in all Israel, did I say one word with any of the judges of Israel whom I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, ‘Why have you not built for me a house of cedar?’ ” ’ ⁷So now, thus you shall say to my servant David, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, “I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be leader over my people Israel, ⁸and I have been with you wherever you went and have cut down all your enemies from before you and will make a name for you, like the name of the great ones on the earth. ⁹And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and I will plant them,^a and they^b shall dwell in their^c place and be in anguish no longer. And wicked men will no longer wear them down as before, ¹⁰from the day that I commanded judges over my people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies, and I declare to you that Yahweh will build for you a house.^d