But that same night the word of the Lord came to Nathan,
And he said, “Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to him in a vision, I speak with him in a dream.
Surely the Lord God does nothing, without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.
And Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart; for the Lord is with you.”
“Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord: Would you build me a house to dwell in?
And the Lord sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, “There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor.
‘Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city in all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.’