7:1 The king settled into his palace, 1 for the Lord gave him relief 2 from all his enemies on all sides. 3 7:2 The king said to Nathan the prophet, “Look! I am living in a palace made from cedar, while the ark of God sits in the middle of a tent.”
1 tn Heb “house” (also in the following verse).
2 tn Or “rest.”
3 tn The translation understands the disjunctive clause in v. 1b as circumstantial-causal.