3 Then Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your ^aheart, for the Lord is with you.”  ‡

4 But it happened that night that the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying,

6 For I have not dwelt in a house ^asince the time that I brought the children of Israel up from Egypt, even to this day, but have moved about in ^ba tent and in a tabernacle.  ‡

7 Wherever I have ^amoved about with all the children of Israel, have I ever spoken a word to anyone from the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded ^bto shepherd My people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?’ ” ’  ‡