2 Samuel 7:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

The king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is housed inside the curtains of a tent.

Cross References

2 Samuel 11:11

And Uriah said to David, Israel and Judah with the ark are living in tents, and my lord Joab and the other servants of my lord are sleeping in the open field; and am I to go to my house and take food and drink, and go to bed with my wife? By the living Lord, and by the life of your soul, I will not do such a thing.

2 Samuel 12:1

And the Lord sent Nathan to David. And Nathan came to him and said, There were two men in the same town: one a man of great wealth, and the other a poor man.

2 Samuel 5:11

And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David, with cedar-trees and woodworkers and stoneworkers: and they made David a house.

2 Samuel 6:17

And they took in the ark of the Lord, and put it in its place inside the tent which David had put up for it: and David made burned offerings and peace-offerings to the Lord.

2 Samuel 7:17

So Nathan gave David an account of all these words and this vision.

1 Kings 1:22

And while she was still talking with the king, Nathan the prophet came in.

1 Kings 1:8

But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet and Shimei and Rei, and David's men of war did not take the side of Adonijah.

1 Kings 4:5

Azariah, the son of Nathan, was over those in authority in the different divisions of the country; Zabud, the son of Nathan, was priest and the king's friend;

1 Kings 8:17

Now it was in the heart of David my father to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

1 Chronicles 14:1

And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David with cedar-trees, and stoneworkers and woodworkers for the building of his house.

1 Chronicles 16:1

Then they took in the ark of God and put it inside the tent which David had put up for it; and they made offerings, burned offerings and peace-offerings before God.

1 Chronicles 22:7

And David said to Solomon, My son, it was my desire to put up a house for the name of the Lord my God.

1 Chronicles 29:29

Now all the acts of David, first and last, are recorded in the words of Samuel the seer, and the words of Nathan the prophet, and the words of Gad the seer;

2 Chronicles 1:4

But the ark of God had been moved by David from Kiriath-jearim to the place which he had made ready for it, for he had put up a tent for it at Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 29:25

Then he put the Levites in their places in the house of the Lord, with brass and corded instruments of music as ordered by David and Gad, the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for the order was the Lord's, given by his prophets.

2 Chronicles 9:29

Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not recorded in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the words of Ahijah the prophet of Shiloh, and in the visions of Iddo the seer about Jeroboam, the son of Nebat?

Psalm 132:2

How he made an oath to the Lord, and gave his word to the great God of Jacob, saying,

Psalm 132:5

Till I have got a place for the Lord, a resting-place for the great God of Jacob.

Exodus 40:21

And he took the ark into the House, hanging up the veil before it as the Lord had given him orders.

Haggai 1:4

Is it a time for you to be living in roofed houses while this house is a waste?

John 2:17

And it came to the minds of the disciples that the Writings say, I am on fire with passion for your house.

Acts 7:46

Who was pleasing to God; and he had a desire to make a holy tent for the God of Jacob.