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?In other versions
Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith Jehovah, Shalt thou build me a house for me to dwell in?
ASV
Go and say to my servant David, The Lord says, Are you to be the builder of a house, a living-place for me?
BBE
Go and say to my servant, to David, Thus saith Jehovah: Wilt thou build me a house for me to dwell in?
DBY
Go and tell my servant David, Thus says Yahweh, Shall you build me a house for me to dwell in?
WEB
`Go, and thou hast said unto My servant, unto David, Thus said Jehovah, Dost thou build for Me a house for My dwelling in?
YLT
Go and tell my servant David, Thus says the LORD, Shall you build me an house for me to dwell in?
ENG
Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Wilt thou build me a house for me to dwell in?
WBT
“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?
BSB
In context
3And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thine heart; for the LORD is with thee.
4And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came unto Nathan, saying,
5Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?
6Whereas 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.
7In 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?
Cross-references
People in this verse
- David