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From the time I brought Israel out of Egypt until now I have not lived in a house. I have moved from one tent site to another and from one place to another. As I have moved with the Israelites to different places, I have never said to the leaders, whom I commanded to take care of my people, “Why haven’t you built me a house of cedar?”’

“Now, tell my servant David: ‘This is what the Lord All-Powerful says: I took you from the pasture and from tending the sheep and made you king of my people Israel.

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