NET Bible
"“Go, tell my servant David:‘This is what the LORD has said: Do you really intend to build a house for me to live in?"
— 2 Samuel 7:5, NET Bible
“Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the Lord, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?”
“Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith Jehovah, Shalt thou build me a house for me to dwell in? ”
“"Go and tell my servant David, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Shall you build me a house for me to dwell in?”
“Go, and say to my servant David: Thus saith the Lord: Shalt thou build me a house to dwell in?”
“Go and say to my servant David, The Lord says, Are you to be the builder of a house, a living-place for me?”
“Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the Lord, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?”
The king said to Nathan the prophet,“Look! I am living in a palace made from cedar, while the ark of God sits in the middle of a tent.”
Nathan replied to the king,“You should go and do whatever you have in mind, for the LORD is with you.”
That night the LORD’s message came to Nathan,
“Go, tell my servant David:‘This is what the LORD has said: Do you really intend to build a house for me to live in?
I have not lived in a house from the time I brought the Israelites up from Egypt to the present day. Instead, I was traveling with them and living in a tent.
Wherever I moved among all the Israelites, I did not say to any of their leaders whom I appointed to care for my people Israel,“Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?”’
“So now, say this to my servant David:‘This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has said: I took you from the pasture and from your work as a shepherd to make you leader of my people Israel.