1 Chronicles 17:7
Now therefore thus shall you say unto my servant David, Thus says the Yahuah of hosts, I took you from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, that you shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:
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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 tabernacle .
6 Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?
7 Now therefore thus shall you say unto my servant David, Thus says the Yahuah of hosts, I took you from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, that you shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:
8 And I have been with you whithersoever you hast walked, and have cut off all your enemies from before you, and have made you a name like the name of the great men that in the earth.
9 Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,