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2 Samuel 7:6-8
International Standard Version
2 Samuel 7:6-8
International Standard Version
6 After all, I haven’t lived in a house since the day I brought up the Israelis from Egypt until now. Instead, I’ve moved around in a tent that served as my[a] dwelling place. 7 Wherever I moved among the Israelis, did I ever ask even one tribal leader[b] of Israel whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, ‘Why haven’t you built me a cedar house?’
8 “‘“Now therefore this is what you are to tell my servant David: ‘This is what the Lord of the Heavenly Armies says: “I took you from the pasture myself—from tending sheep—to become Commander-in-Chief[c] over my people, that is, over Israel.
Footnotes
- 2 Samuel 7:6 Lit. tent and
- 2 Samuel 7:7 Lit. ask the tribes
- 2 Samuel 7:8 Lit. Nagid; i.e. a senior officer entrusted with dual roles of operational oversight and administrative authority
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