“Go and tell my servant David, ‘Yahweh says, “Should you build me a house for me to dwell in?
Parallel translations
- KJV Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?
- BSB “Go and tell My servant David that this is what the LORD says: Are you the one to build for Me a house to dwell in?
- NKJV “Go and tell My servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Would you build a house for Me to dwell in?
- NASB “Go and say to My servant David, ‘This is what the Lord says: “Should you build Me a house for My dwelling?
- NLT “Go and tell my servant David, ‘This is what the Lord has declared: Are you the one to build a house for me to live in?
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Cross-references · 5
- 1 Chr 23:3–32The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
- 1 Chr 17:4“Go and tell David my servant, ‘Yahweh says, “You shall not build me a house to dwell in;
- 1 Chr 22:7–8David said to Solomon his son, “As for me, it was in my heart to build a house to the name of Yahweh my God.
- 1 Kgs 5:3–4“You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of Yahweh his God because of the wars which were around him on every side, until Yahweh put his enemies under the soles of his feet.
- 1 Kgs 8:16–19‘Since the day that I brought 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.’
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