Discovery Box1 Chronicles 17:1 
ContextGod Makes a Promise to David
17:1 When David had settled into his palace, 1 he 2 said to Nathan the prophet, “Look, I am living in a palace 3 made from cedar, while the ark of the Lord’s covenant is under a tent.” 4
1 Chronicles 17:6
Context17:6 Wherever I moved throughout Israel, I did not say 5 to any of the leaders whom I appointed to care for my people Israel, 6 ‘Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?’”’
1 tn Heb “house.”
2 tn Heb “David.” The pronoun “he” has been used in the translation here to avoid redundancy in keeping with contemporary English style.
3 tn Heb “house.”
4 tn Heb “tent curtains.”
5 tn In the Hebrew text the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question (“Did I say?”) meaning “I did not say.”
6 tn Heb “to one of the judges of Israel whom I commanded to shepherd my people.”
