2 Samuel 7:5-7 Go and say to my servant David, Thus saith the Lord, Art not thou to build me a house to dwell in?

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ Go and say to my servant David, Thus saith the Lord, Art not thou to build me a house to dwell in? ⁶ Because I did not dwell in a house from the day I brought the children of Israel out of Egypt even to this day, but continued walking about in a temporary abode and in a tabernacle ⁷ in all the places through which I passed with all Israel, did I ever speak to any tribe of Israel whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, and say, Why have you not built for me a house of cedar?