7:7 Wherever I moved among all the Israelites, I did not say 1 to any of the leaders 2 whom I appointed to care for 3 my people Israel, “Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?”’
1 tnHeb “Did I speak a word?” In the Hebrew text the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question.
2 tnHeb “tribes” (so KJV, NASB, NCV), but the parallel passage in 1 Chr 17:6 has “judges.”
3 tnHeb “whom I commanded to shepherd” (so NIV, NRSV).