Text -- 2 Samuel 7:7 (NET)

7:7 Wherever I moved among all the Israelites, I did not say to any of the leaders whom I appointed to care for my people Israel, “Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?”’

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: 2Sa 7:7

¹ tn Heb “Did I speak a word?” In the Hebrew text the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question.

² tn Heb “tribes” (so KJV, NASB, NCV), but the parallel passage in 1 Chr 17:6 has “judges.”

³ tn Heb “whom I commanded to shepherd” (so NIV, NRSV).