1 Chronicles 17:1-3

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

God’s Covenant with David

17 Now when David settled in his house, David said to the prophet Nathan, ‘I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the Lord is under a tent.’ ² Nathan said to David, ‘Do all that you have in mind, for God is with you.’

³ But that same night the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying: