17:6 Wherever I moved throughout Israel, I did not say 1 to any of the leaders whom I appointed to care for my people Israel, 2 ‘Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?’”’
1 tn In the Hebrew text the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question (“Did I say?”) meaning “I did not say.”
2 tnHeb “to one of the judges of Israel whom I commanded to shepherd my people.”