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.”
7:3 Nathan replied to the king, “You should go 1 and do whatever you have in mind, 2 for the Lord is with you.”
7:4 That night the Lord told Nathan, 3
1 tc Several medieval Hebrew mss and the Syriac Peshitta lack this word.
2 tnHeb “all that is in your heart.”
3 tnHeb “the word of the Lord was [i.e., came] to Nathan.”