Discovery Box1 Chronicles 17:6 
Context17:6 Wherever I moved throughout Israel, I did not say 1 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?’”’
1 Chronicles 17:8
Context17:8 I was with you wherever you went and I defeated 3 all your enemies before you. Now I will make you as famous as the great men of the earth. 4
1 tn In the Hebrew text the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question (“Did I say?”) meaning “I did not say.”
2 tn Heb “to one of the judges of Israel whom I commanded to shepherd my people.”
3 tn Heb “cut off.”
4 tn Heb “and I will make for you a name like the name of the great men who are in the earth.”
