¹ sn Inside and out probably refers to the inner and outer rooms within the building.

¹ sn Inside and out probably refers to the inner and outer rooms within the building.

² tn The disjunctive clause highlights this observation and builds the tension of the story.

³ tn This is an adverbial accusative explaining the material used in building the altar.

² tn Heb “Who retains strength to build for him a house, for the heavens and the heavens of heavens do not contain him? And who am I that I should build for him a house, except to sacrifice before him?”

¹ tn Grk “Therefore leaving behind.” The implication is not of abandoning this elementary information, but of building on it.

² sn A quotation from Isa 66:1-2. If God made the heavens, how can a human building contain him?

¹ sn What kind…resting place? The rhetorical questions suggest mere human beings cannot build a house to contain God.

² sn The expression build houses may mean “establish families” (Deut 25:9; Ruth 4:11; Prov 24:27).

² tn Or “Build.” The imperfect verbal form is used here to express the psalmist’s wish or request.

¹ tn Heb “will arise and build.” The idiom “arise and…” means to begin the action described by the second verb.

¹ tn Heb “your son, the one who came out of your body, he will build the temple for my name.”

² tn Heb “and Solomon said to build a house for the name of the Lord and house for his kingship.”

² tn Heb “and the house to build to make exceedingly great for a name and for splendor for all the lands.”

² tn Following the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive here indicates the immediate purpose: “so I can build.”

¹ tn Heb “your son, the one who came out of your body, he will build the temple for my name.”

³ sn God gave…the covenant. Note how the covenant of promise came before Abraham’s entry into the land and before the building of the temple.

³ sn The household is not a reference to the building, but to the people who lived within it (L&N 10.8).

² tn The first illustration involves checking to see if enough funds exist to build a watchtower. Both ψηφίζω (psēphizō, “compute”) and δαπάνη (dapanē, “cost”) are economic terms.

² tn The word αὐλή (aulē) describes any building large and elaborate enough to have an interior courtyard, thus “dwelling, palace, mansion” (L&N 7.6).