1 Chronicles 17:5 BBE

³  But that same night, the word of God came to Nathan, saying,

⁴  Go and say to David my servant, The Lord says, You are not to make me a house for my living-place:

⁵  For from the day when I took Israel up, till this day, I have had no house, but have gone from tent to tent, and from living-place to living-place.

⁶  In all the places where I have gone with all Israel, did I ever say to any of the judges of Israel, whom I made the keepers of my people, Why have you not made for me a house of cedar?

⁷  So now, say to my servant David, The Lord of armies says, I took you from the fields, from keeping sheep, so that you might be a ruler over my people Israel;