2 Samuel 7:6

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.

2 Samuel 16:22

16:22 So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and Absalom had sex with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.


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

sn That is, on top of the flat roof of the palace, so it would be visible to the public.

tn Heb “went to”; NAB “he visited his father’s concubines”; NIV “lay with his father’s concubines”; TEV “went in and had intercourse with.”