2 Samuel 7:5

In 11 translations

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?

KJV

Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?my servant…: Heb. to my servant, to David

WEB

“Go and tell my servant David, ‘Yahweh says, “Should you build me a house for me to dwell in?

ASV

Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith Jehovah, Shalt thou build me a house for me to dwell in?

LSV

“Go, and you have said to My servant, to David, Thus said YHWH: Do you build for Me a house for My dwelling in?

YLT

'Go, and thou hast said unto My servant, unto David, Thus said Jehovah, Dost thou build for Me a house for My dwelling in?

DBY

Go and say to my servant, to David, Thus saith Jehovah: Wilt thou build me a house for me to dwell in?

DRC

Go, and say to my servant David: Thus saith the Lord: Shalt thou build me a house to dwell in?

GNV

Goe and tell my seruant Dauid, Thus saieth the Lord, Shalt thou buylde me an house for my dwelling?

JPS

'Go and tell My servant David: Thus saith the LORD: Shalt thou build Me a house for Me to dwell in?

LXXE

Go, and say to my servant David, Thus says the Lord, Thou shalt not build me a house for me to dwell in.

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WLC

לֵ֤ךְ וְאָֽמַרְתָּ֙ אֶל־עַבְדִּ֣י אֶל־דָּוִ֔ד כֹּ֖ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֑ה הַאַתָּ֛ה תִּבְנֶה־לִּ֥י בַ֖יִת לְשִׁבְתִּֽי׃

LXX-Br

καὶ εἶπον πρὸς τὸν δοῦλόν μου Δαυὶδ, τάδε λέγει Κύριος, οὐ σὺ οἰκοδομήσεις μοι οἶκον τοῦ κατοικῆσαί με.

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• 1 Chronicles 23:3–32The Levites thirty years of age or older were counted, and the total number of men was 38,000. “Of these,” said David, “24,000 are to oversee the work of the house of the LORD, 6,000 are to be officers and judges,…
• 1 Chronicles 22:7–8“My son,” said David to Solomon, “it was in my heart to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God, but this word of the LORD came to me: ‘You have shed much blood and waged great wars. You are not to build a house…
• 1 Chronicles 17:4“Go and tell My servant David that this is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build Me a house in which to dwell.
• 1 Kings 5:3–4“As you are well aware, due to the wars waged on all sides against my father David, he could not build a house for the Name of the LORD his God until the LORD had put his enemies under his feet. But now the LORD my God…
• 1 Kings 8:16–19‘Since the day I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there. But I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’…

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