A moment in scripture
1 Chronicles 17:3
And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
The surrounding passage
- 1 Chronicles 17:1
Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the Lord remaineth under curtains.
- 1 Chronicles 17:2
Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God is with thee.
- 1 Chronicles 17:4
Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the Lord, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:
- 1 Chronicles 17:5
For I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought up Israel unto this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.