2 Samuel 7:5

Modern English Version

Go and say to My servant David: Thus says the Lord: Do you intend to build a house for Me in which I will dwell?

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:4

That 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 which you are building, if you will walk in My statutes and execute My judgments and keep all My commandments and walk in them, then I will carry out My word with you, which I spoke to David your father,

1 Chronicles 17:4

Go and tell David My servant: Thus says the Lord: You will not build a house for Me to dwell in,

1 Chronicles 28:3

But God said to me, ‘You shall not build a house for My name because you are a man of war and have spilled much blood.’

Proverbs 16:1

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the reply of the tongue is from the Lord.

Isaiah 66:1

Thus says the Lord: Heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool. Where then is the house that you could build for Me? And where is the place of My rest?