2 Samuel 7:13

7:13 He will build a house for my name, and I will make his dynasty permanent. ¹ 

2 Samuel 7:1

The Lord Establishes a Covenant with David

7:1 The king settled into his palace, ²  for the Lord gave him relief ³  from all his enemies on all sides. ⁴ 

2 Samuel 22:10

22:10 He made the sky sink ⁵  as he descended;

a thick cloud was under his feet.

¹ tn Heb “and I will establish the throne of his kingdom permanently.”

² tn Heb “house” (also in the following verse).

³ tn Or “rest.”

⁴ tn The translation understands the disjunctive clause in v. 1b as circumstantial-causal.

⁵ tn The verb נָטָה (natah) can carry the sense “[to cause to] bend; [to cause to] bow down” (see HALOT 693 s.v. נָטָה). For example, Gen 49:15 pictures Issachar as a donkey that “bends” its shoulder or back under a burden (cf. KJV, NASB, NRSV “He bowed the heavens”; NAB “He inclined the heavens”). Here the Lord causes the sky, pictured as a dome or vault, to bend or sink down as he descends in the storm.