2 Samuel 7:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ “Go and tell my servant David: Thus says the Lord: Are you the one to build me a house to live in?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Go and tell My servant David, Thus says the Lord: Shall you build Me a house in which to dwell?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith Jehovah, Shalt thou build me a house for me to dwell in?

Common English Bible

⁵ Go to my servant David and tell him: This is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build the temple for me to live in.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ "Go, and say to my servant David: 'Thus says the Lord: Should you build a house for me as a dwelling place?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Go, and say to my servant David: Thus saith the Lord: Shalt thou build me a house to dwell in?

2 Samuel 7:5 Cross References

2 Samuel 7:4

But that same night the word of the Lord came to Nathan,

1 Kings 5:17

At the king’s command, they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones.

1 Kings 6:12

“Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, obey my ordinances, and keep all my commandments by walking in them, then I will establish my promise with you that I made to your father David.

1 Chronicles 17:4

“Go and tell my servant David: Thus says the Lord: You shall not build me a house to live in.

1 Chronicles 28:3

But God said to me, ‘You shall not build a house for my name, for you are a warrior and have shed blood.’

Proverbs 16:1

The plans of the mind belong to mortals, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.

Isaiah 66:1

Thus says the Lord: Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; so what kind of house could you build for me, what sort of place for me to rest?