2 Samuel 7:5
What does 2 Samuel 7:5 mean?
A plain-English look at 2 Samuel 7:5 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith Jehovah, Shalt thou build me a house for me to dwell in?
KJV
King James Version · 1611Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the Lord, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith Jehovah, Shalt thou build me a house for me to dwell in?
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Go and say to my servant David, The Lord says, Are you to be the builder of a house, a living-place for me?
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862`Go, and thou hast said unto My servant, unto David, Thus said Jehovah, Dost thou build for Me a house for My dwelling in?
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Go, and say to my servant David: Thus saith the Lord: Shalt thou build me a house to dwell in?
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Go and say to my servant, to David, Thus saith Jehovah: Wilt thou build me a house for me to dwell in?
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 5:3
Thou knowest how that David my father could not build a house for the name of Jehovah his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until Jehovah put them under the soles of his feet.
- 1 Kings 8:16
Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.
- 1 Chronicles 17:4
Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith Jehovah, Thou shalt not build me a house to dwell in:
- 1 Chronicles 22:7
And David said to Solomon his son, As for me, it was in my heart to build a house unto the name of Jehovah my God.
- 1 Chronicles 23:3
And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
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