2Sa 7:6-7, 1Ki 8:16 | ESV | STEP | I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day , but I have been moving about in a tent for my dwelling .

2 Samuel 7:6-7

6 I have not lived in a house ^asince the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about ^bin a tent for my dwelling. 7 In all places where ^cI have moved with all the people of Israel, did I speak a word with ^dany of the judges ^{▼▼Compare 1 Chronicles 17:6; Hebrew tribes} of Israel, whom I commanded ^fto shepherd my people Israel, saying, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?”’

1 Kings 8:16

16 ^g‘Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, ^hthat my name might be there. ⁱBut I chose David to be over my people Israel.’