2 Samuel 7:7

7:7 Wherever I moved among all the Israelites, I did not say8 to any of the leaders9 whom I appointed to care for10 my people Israel, “Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?” ’

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8	tn Heb “Did I speak a word?” In the Hebrew text the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question.
9	tn Heb “tribes” (so KJV, NASB, NCV), but the parallel passage in 1 Chr 17:6 has “judges.”
10	tn Heb “whom I commanded to shepherd” (so NIV, NRSV).