² the king said to the prophet Nathan,^(A) ‘Look, I am living in a cedar house while the ark of God sits inside tent curtains.’^(B)

³ So Nathan told the king, ‘Go and do all that is on your mind, for the Lord is with you.’

⁷ ‘My son,’ David said to Solomon, ‘It was in my heart to build a house for the name of the Lord my God,^(A)