2 Samuel 7:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For from the day when I took the children of Israel up out of Egypt till this day, I have had no house, but have gone from place to place in a tent.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 8:16 : 16 From the day when I took my people Israel out of Egypt, no town in all the tribes of Israel has been marked out by me for the building of a house for the resting-place of my name; but I made selection of David to be king over my people Israel.
  • Exod 40:18-19 : 18 Moses put up the House; placing its bases in position and lifting up its uprights, putting in the rods and planting the pillars in their places; 19 Stretching the outer tent over it, and covering it, as the Lord had given him orders.
  • Josh 18:1 : 1 And all the meeting of the children of Israel came together at Shiloh and put up the Tent of meeting there: and the land was crushed before them.
  • Exod 33:14-15 : 14 And he said, I myself will go with you and give you rest. 15 And Moses said, If you yourself are not going with us, do not send us on from here.
  • Exod 40:34-38 : 34 Then the cloud came down covering the Tent of meeting, and the House was full of the glory of the Lord; 35 So that Moses was not able to go into the Tent of meeting, because the cloud was resting on it, and the House was full of the glory of the Lord. 36 And whenever the cloud was taken up from the House, the children of Israel went forward on their journey: 37 But while the cloud was there, they made no move till it was taken up. 38 For the cloud of the Lord was resting on the House by day, and at night there was fire in the cloud, before the eyes of all the people of Israel, and so it was through all their journeys.
  • Lev 26:23-24 : 23 And if by these things you will not be turned to me, but still go against me; 24 Then I will go against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for all your sins.
  • Lev 26:27-28 : 27 And if, after all this, you do not give ear to me, but go against me still, 28 Then my wrath will be burning against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for your sins.
  • Num 10:33-36 : 33 So they went forward three days' journey from the mountain of the Lord; and the ark of the Lord's agreement went three days' journey before them, looking for a resting-place for them; 34 And by day the cloud of the Lord went over them, when they went forward from the place where they had put up their tents. 35 And when the ark went forward Moses said, Come up, O Lord, and let the armies of those who are against you be broken, and let your haters go in flight before you. 36 And when it came to rest, he said, Take rest, O Lord, and give a blessing to the families of Israel.
  • Deut 23:14 : 14 For the Lord your God is walking among your tents, to keep you safe and to give up into your hands those who are fighting against you; then let your tents be holy, so that he may see no unclean thing among you, and be turned away from you.
  • 1 Chr 17:5-6 : 5 For from the day when I took Israel up, till this day, I have had no house, but have gone from tent to tent, and from living-place to living-place. 6 In all the places where I have gone with all Israel, did I ever say to any of the judges of Israel, whom I made the keepers of my people, Why have you not made for me a house of cedar?
  • Acts 7:44 : 44 Our fathers had the Tent of witness in the waste land, as God gave orders to Moses to make it after the design which he had seen.
  • 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
  • Rev 2:1 : 1 To the angel of the church in Ephesus say: These things says he who has the seven stars in his right hand, who is walking in the middle of the seven gold lights:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Chr 17:4-7
    4 verses
    94%

    4 Go and say to David my servant, The Lord says, You are not to make me a house for my living-place:

    5 For from the day when I took Israel up, till this day, I have had no house, but have gone from tent to tent, and from living-place to living-place.

    6 In all the places where I have gone with all Israel, did I ever say to any of the judges of Israel, whom I made the keepers of my people, Why have you not made for me a house of cedar?

    7 So now, say to my servant David, The Lord of armies says, I took you from the fields, from keeping sheep, so that you might be a ruler over my people Israel;

  • 2 Sam 7:7-8
    2 verses
    88%

    7 In all the places where I went with all the children of Israel, did I ever say to any of the judges of Israel, to whom I gave the care of my people Israel, Why have you not made me a house of cedar?

    8 Then say these words to my servant David, The Lord of armies says, I took you from the fields, from keeping the sheep, so that you might be a ruler over my people, over my people Israel:

  • 2 Sam 7:5
    82%

    5 Go and say to my servant David, The Lord says, Are you to be the builder of a house, a living-place for me?

  • 2 Chr 6:5-7
    3 verses
    80%

    5 From the day when I took my people out of the land of Egypt, no town in all the tribes of Israel has been marked out by me for the building of a house for the resting-place of my name; and I took no man to be a ruler over my people Israel;

    6 But now I have made selection of Jerusalem, that my name might be there, and of David, to be over my people Israel.

    7 Now it was in the heart of my father David to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 6:12-13
    2 verses
    78%

    12 About this house which you are building: if you will keep my laws and give effect to my decisions and be guided by my rules, I will give effect to my word which I gave to David your father.

    13 And I will be ever among the children of Israel, and will not go away from my people.

  • 2 Chr 6:2
    77%

    2 So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.

  • 1 Kgs 8:16-17
    2 verses
    77%

    16 From the day when I took my people Israel out of Egypt, no town in all the tribes of Israel has been marked out by me for the building of a house for the resting-place of my name; but I made selection of David to be king over my people Israel.

    17 Now it was in the heart of David my father to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 6:18
    76%

    18 But is it truly possible that God may be housed with men on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place: how much less this house which I have made:

  • Acts 7:46-49
    4 verses
    75%

    46 Who was pleasing to God; and he had a desire to make a holy tent for the God of Jacob.

    47 But Solomon was the builder of his house.

    48 But still, the Most High has not his resting-place in houses made with hands, as the prophet says,

    49 Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is a resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, says the Lord, or what is my place of rest?

  • 2 Sam 7:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10 And I will make a resting-place for my people Israel, planting them there, so that they may be living in the place which is theirs, and never again be moved; and never again will they be troubled by evil men as they were at the first,

    11 From the time when I put judges over my people Israel; and I will give you peace from all who are against you. And the Lord says to you that he will make you the head of a line of kings.

  • 2 Chr 6:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10 And the Lord has kept his word; for I have taken my father David's place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel, as the Lord gave his word; and I have made the house for the name of the Lord the God of Israel.

    11 And there I have put the ark, in which is the agreement of the Lord, which he made with the people of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 8:27
    75%

    27 But is it truly possible that God may be housed on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place; how much less this house which I have made!

  • 2 Sam 7:2
    75%

    2 The king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is housed inside the curtains of a tent.

  • 2 Chr 7:16-17
    2 verses
    74%

    16 For I have taken this house for myself and made it holy, so that my name may be there for ever; and my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

    17 And as for you, if you will go on your way before me as David your father did, doing whatever I have given you orders to do and keeping my laws and my decisions:

  • 1 Kgs 8:13
    74%

    13 So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.

  • 1 Kgs 8:20-21
    2 verses
    74%

    20 And the Lord has made his word come true; for I have taken my father David's place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel, as the Lord gave his word; and I have made a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

    21 In it I have made a place for the ark, in which is the agreement which the Lord made with our fathers, when he took them out of the land of Egypt.

  • Hos 12:9
    74%

    9 And Ephraim said, Now I have got wealth and much property; in all my works no sin may be seen in me.

  • Ps 132:5
    73%

    5 Till I have got a place for the Lord, a resting-place for the great God of Jacob.

  • 1 Chr 15:1
    73%

    1 And David made houses for himself in the town of David; and he got ready a place for the ark of God, and put up a tent for it.

  • 1 Chr 17:1
    73%

    1 Now when David was living in his house, he said to Nathan the prophet, See, I am living in a house of cedar-wood, but the ark of the Lord's agreement is under the curtains of a tent.

  • 2 Sam 7:18
    72%

    18 Then David the king went in and took his seat before the Lord, and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, that you have been my guide till now?

  • 2 Chr 2:6
    72%

    6 But who may have strength enough to make a house for him, seeing that the heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be his resting-place? who am I then to make a house for him? But I am building it only for the burning of perfume before him.

  • 1 Chr 28:2
    72%

    2 Then David the king got up and said, Give ear to me, my brothers and my people; it was my desire to put up a house, a resting-place for the ark of the Lord's agreement, and for the foot-rest of our God; and I had got material ready for the building of it.

  • 2 Sam 7:27
    72%

    27 For you, O Lord of armies, the God of Israel, have clearly said to your servant, I will make you the head of a family of kings: and so it has come into your servant's heart to make this prayer to you.

  • Exod 25:8
    71%

    8 And let them make me a holy place, so that I may be ever present among them.

  • Num 9:17
    71%

    17 And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the House, then the children of Israel went journeying on; and in the place where the cloud came to rest, there the children of Israel put up their tents.

  • Jer 7:12
    71%

    12 But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I put my name at first, and see what I did to it because of the evil-doing of my people Israel.

  • 1 Chr 17:10
    71%

    10 From the time when I put judges over my people Israel; and I will overcome all those who are against you; and I will make you great and the head of a line of kings.

  • 2 Chr 1:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3 Then Solomon, and all the men of Israel with him, went to the high place at Gibeon, because the Tent of meeting of God, which Moses, the servant of the Lord, had made in the waste land, was there.

    4 But the ark of God had been moved by David from Kiriath-jearim to the place which he had made ready for it, for he had put up a tent for it at Jerusalem.

  • Jer 7:7
    71%

    7 Then I will let you go on living in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers in the past and for ever.

  • Ps 26:8
    71%

    8 Lord, your house has been dear to me, and the resting-place of your glory.

  • 1 Kgs 5:5
    71%

    5 And so it is my purpose to make a house for the name of the Lord my God, as he said to David my father, Your son, whom I will make king in your place, will be the builder of a house for my name.

  • 2 Chr 7:12
    70%

    12 Now the Lord came to Solomon in a vision by night, and said to him, I have given ear to your prayer, and have taken this place for myself as a house where offerings are to be made.

  • Jer 35:7
    70%

    7 And you are to make no houses, or put in seed, or get vine-gardens planted, or have any: but all your days you are to go on living in tents, so that you may have a long life in the land where you are living as in a strange country.