Context 17:6 Wherever I moved throughout Israel, I did not say1 to any of the leaders whom I appointed to care for my people Israel,2 ‘Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?’”’
[17:6]1tn In the Hebrew text the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question (“Did I say?”) meaning “I did not say.”
[17:6]2tnHeb “to one of the judges of Israel whom I commanded to shepherd my people.”