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2 Samuel 7:7-9
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7 Wherever I moved among all the Israelites, I did not say[a] to any of their leaders[b] whom I appointed to care for[c] my people Israel, “Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?”’

8 “So now, say this to my servant David, ‘This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies has said: I took you from the pasture and from your work as a shepherd[d] to make you leader of my people Israel. 9 I was with you wherever you went, and I defeated[e] all your enemies before you. Now I will make you as famous as the great men of the earth.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 7:7 tn Heb “Did I speak a word?” In the Hebrew text the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question.
  2. 2 Samuel 7:7 tn Heb “tribes of Israel” (so KJV, NASB, NCV), but the parallel passage in 1 Chr 17:6 has “judges of Israel.”
  3. 2 Samuel 7:7 tn Heb “whom I commanded to shepherd” (so NIV, NRSV).
  4. 2 Samuel 7:8 tn Heb “and from after the sheep.”
  5. 2 Samuel 7:9 tn Heb “cut off.”
  6. 2 Samuel 7:9 tn Heb “and I will make for you a great name like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.”
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