Go and tell My servant David, So says Jehovah, Shall you build Me a house for My dwelling?
And that night the Word of Jehovah came to Nathan saying,
And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, cut stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
As to this house which you are building, if you will walk in My statutes and do My judgments and keep all My commandments, to walk in them, then I will perform My work with you which I spoke to David your father.
Go and tell David My servant, So says Jehovah, You shall not build Me a house to dwell in.
But God said to me, You shall not build a house for My name, because you have been a man of war and have shed blood.
The ordering of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from Jehovah.
So says Jehovah, Heaven is My throne, and earth My footstool. Where, then, is the house that you build for Me? And where is the place of My rest?