Discovery Box2 Samuel 7:2 
Context7:2 The king said to Nathan the prophet, “Look! I am living in a palace made from cedar, while the ark of God sits in the middle of a tent.”
2 Samuel 7:7
Context7:7 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?”’
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).
