Devine Scripture

2 Samuel 7:5

2 Samuel chapter 7 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith Jehovah, Shalt thou build me a house for me to dwell in?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the Lord, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith Jehovah, Shalt thou build me a house for me to dwell in?

Context

v.4And it came to pass the same night, that the word of Jehovah came unto Nathan, saying,

v.5This passage

v.6for I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.

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.