16:1 They brought the ark of God and put it in the middle of the tent David had pitched for it. Then they offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings 1 before God.
17:1 When David had settled into his palace, 2 he 3 said to Nathan the prophet, “Look, I am living in a palace 4 made from cedar, while the ark of the Lord’s covenant is under a tent.” 5
1 tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV “fellowship offerings.”
2 tn Heb “house.”
3 tn Heb “David.” The pronoun “he” has been used in the translation here to avoid redundancy in keeping with contemporary English style.
4 tn Heb “house.”
5 tn Heb “tent curtains.”
6 tn The words “from Egypt” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
7 tc Heb “and I was from tent to tent and from tabernacle.” The words אֶל־מִשְּׁכָּן (’el-mishÿkan, “to tabernacle”) should probably be added at the end of the sentence to complete this prepositional phrase and produce symmetry with the preceding prepositional phrase. The words probably fell from the text by homoioteleuton.
sn I have lived in a tent that has been in various places. The point here is that the Lord moved with the tabernacle as it moved from place to place; he did not confine himself to a particular location.
8 tn Heb “and they kept the charge of the tent of meeting and the charge of the holy place and the charge of the sons of Aaron, their brothers, for the service of the house of the