2 Samuel 7:6-7

7:6 I have not lived in a house from the time I brought the Israelites up from Egypt to the present day. Instead, I was traveling with them and living in a tent. 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?”’

2 Samuel 7:1

The Lord Establishes a Covenant with David

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

2 Samuel 8:16

David’s Cabinet

8:16 Joab son of Zeruiah was general in command of the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was secretary;


tn Heb “in a tent and in a dwelling.” The expression is a hendiadys, using two terms to express one idea.

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

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

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

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

tn Or “rest.”

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

tn Heb “was over.”