1 Chronicles 17:6

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?’”’

Ex 33:14,14,15; Ex 40:35-38; Le 26:11,12; Nu 10:33-36; De 23:14; Jud 2:16-18; 1Sa 12:11; 2Sa 7:7; 1Ch 11:2; Ps 78:71,72; Jer 23:4; Eze 34:2; Mic 5:4; Mt 2:6; Ac 13:20; 2Co 6:16; Re 2:1

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.”