2 Samuel 7:7

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?”’

2 Samuel 7:9

7:9 I was with you wherever you went, and I defeated 4  all your enemies before you. Now I will make you as famous as the great men of the earth. 5 

2 Samuel 15:21

15:21 But Ittai replied to the king, “As surely as the Lord lives and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king is, whether dead or alive, 6  there I 7  will be as well!”

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

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

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

4 tn Heb “cut off.”

5 tn Heb “and I will make for you a great name like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.”

6 tn Heb “whether for death or for life.”

7 tn Heb “your servant.”