"""You won't be building a house for me to inhabit, will you? After all, I haven't lived in a house from the day I brought out Israel until today. Instead, I've lived from tent to tent and from one place to another.

These were the potters and those who lived among plants and hedges. They lived there with the king for his work.

And as David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, "Look, I live in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh [is] under tent curtains."

And along the borders of the sons of Manasseh: Beth-Shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, and Dor and its towns. In these lived the sons of Joseph the son of Israel.

These [were] the heads of the {families} according to their generations, chiefs. These lived in Jerusalem.

And [Jeiel] the father of Gibeon lived in Gibeon. And the name of his wife [was] Maacah.

and Mikloth (he fathered Shimeah). Now these also lived nearby their brothers in Jerusalem with their kinsmen.

And some of the people of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh lived in Jerusalem:

Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun; and Berechiah the son of Asa, son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of Netophathite.

These [were] the heads of the {families} of the Levites according to their genealogies, leaders. These lived in Jerusalem.

And [these] lived in Gibeon: Jeiel the father of Gibeon. And the name of his wife [was] Maacah.

And Mikloth fathered Shimeam. And they also lived nearby their brothers in Jerusalem with their brothers.

And David lived in the fortress. Therefore they called it the city of David.

And the families of the scribes who lived [at] Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. These [were] the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Recab.

And they lived in Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar Shual,

And they destroyed the remainder of the Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.

and Bela son of Azaz, son of Shema, son of Joel, who lived in Aroer, as far as Nebo and Baal-Meon.

He also lived to the east up to the entrance of the desert {this side of} the River Euphrates, for their livestock had multiplied in the land of Gilead.

And in the days of Saul they made war against the Hagrites, and they fell into their hand. And they lived in their tents in all the region east of Gilead.

And the sons of Gad lived near to them in the land of Bashan as far as Salecah:

And they lived in Gilead, in Bashan, and in {its towns}, and in all the pasturelands of Sharon to their limits.

For many [were] slain because the war was of God. And they lived under them until the exile.

And the sons of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land from Bashan to Baal-Hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon. They [were] numerous.

They found rich, good pasture, and the land was broad, peaceful, and quiet, for some Hamites had lived there previously.