2 Samuel 7:6 (BSB)

For I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought the Israelites up out of Egypt until this day, but I have moved about with a tent as My dwelling.

From 2 Samuel 7. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on 2 Samuel 7:6

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on 2 Samuel 7:4-17: We have here a full revelation of God's favour to David and the kind intentions of that favour, the notices and assurances of which God sent him by Nathan the prophet, whom he entrusted to deliver this long message to him. The design of it is to take him off from his purpose of building the temple and it was therefore sent, 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on 2 Samuel 7:6: Whereas I have not dwelt in any house,.... Fixed, stated, habitation: since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day; a space of five or six hundred years, though he might before: but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle; moving from place to place while in the wilderness, and since in the land...
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on 2 Samuel 7:6-7: 2Sa 7:6-7 The reason assigned for this answer: “I have not dwelt in a house from the day of the bringing up of Israel out of Egypt even to this day, but I was wandering about in a tent and in a dwelling.” “And in a dwelling” (mishcan) is to be taken as explanatory, viz., in a tent which was my dwelling.