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.
I ... have gone from tent to tent ... The literal rendering is, 'I was walking in a tent and in a dwelling.' The evident intention (as we may see from 1 Chronicles 17:6) was to lay stress upon the fact that God was a Mithhallek (a traveling God), and went from one place to another with His tent and His entire dwelling. The dwelling included not merely the tent, but the fore-courts, with the altar of burnt offerings, etc. (Bertheau.)