Discovery Box1 Chronicles 17:1 
Context17:1 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 28:12
Context28:12 He gave him 5 the blueprints of all he envisioned 6 for the courts of the Lord’s temple, all the surrounding rooms, the storehouses of God’s temple, and the storehouses for the holy items.
1 Chronicles 28:18
Context28:18 and for the refined gold of the incense altar.
He gave him 7 the blueprint for the seat 8 of the gold cherubim that spread their wings 9 and provide shelter for the ark of the Lord’s covenant.
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 The words “he gave him” are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.
6 tn Heb “the pattern of all which was in the spirit with him.”
7 tn The words “he gave him” are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.
8 tc The Hebrew text reads מֶרְכָּבָה (merkavah, “chariot”), but the final he (ה) is probably dittographic – note the prefixed he (ה) on the immediately following word. It is preferable to read מֶרְכָּב (merkav, “seat”).
9 tc The Hebrew text does not have “their wings,” but the word כְּנָפַיִם (kÿnafayim, “wings”) has probably been accidentally omitted by homoioteleuton. Note that the immediately preceding לְפֹרְשִׂים (lÿforsim) also ends in mem (ם).
