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].

For I have not dwelt in {H3427} an house {H1004} since the day {H3117} that I brought up {H5927} Israel {H3478} unto this day {H3117}; but have gone from tent {H168} to tent {H168}, and from one tabernacle {H4908} to another.

because from the day I brought up Isra'el until today, I never lived in a house; rather, I've gone from tent to tent and from one tabernacle to another.

For I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought Israel up out of Egypt until this day, but I have moved from tent to tent and dwelling to dwelling.

for I have not dwelt in a 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.

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Cross-References

  • 2 Samuel 7:6 (4 votes)

    Whereas I have not dwelt in [any] house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.

  • 1 Kings 8:16 (3 votes)

    Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.

  • Exodus 40:2 (3 votes)

    On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.

  • Exodus 40:3 (3 votes)

    And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the vail.

  • Isaiah 66:1 (3 votes)

    ¶ Thus saith the LORD, The heaven [is] my throne, and the earth [is] my footstool: where [is] the house that ye build unto me? and where [is] the place of my rest?

  • Isaiah 66:2 (3 votes)

    For all those [things] hath mine hand made, and all those [things] have been, saith the LORD: but to this [man] will I look, [even] to [him that is] poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

  • Acts 7:44 (2 votes)

    Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.