2 Samuel 7:1

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^7:1The king settled into his palace,¹ for the Lord gave him relief² from all his enemies on all sides.³

1 Heb “house” (also in the following verse).
2 Or “rest.”
3 The translation understands the disjunctive clause in v. 1b as circumstantial-causal.

Now when the king lived in his house and the Lord had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies,

After the king was settled in his palace and the Lord had given him rest from all his enemies around him,

When the king had settled into his palace and the Lord had given him rest on every side from all his enemies,

When King David was settled in his palace and the Lord had given him rest from all the surrounding enemies,

It happened that the king settled in his house. (Now Yahweh had given rest to him from all his enemies all around.)

And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the Lord had given him rest round about from all his enemies;

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