1 Chronicles 17:5-7

American Standard Version

⁵ for I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up Israel, unto this day, but ^[a]have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another. ⁶ In all places wherein I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, Why have ye not built me a house of cedar? ⁷ Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, I took thee from the ^[b]sheepcote, from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ^[c]prince over my people Israel: