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Wherever I’ve moved within all of Israel, did I ever ask even one judge of Israel whom I commanded to shepherd my people, ‘Why haven’t you built me a cedar house?’”’

“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[a] over my people Israel.

“‘“Furthermore, I have remained with you everywhere you have gone, annihilating all your enemies right in front of you. I will make your reputation[b] great, like the reputation[c] of the great ones who have lived on[d] earth.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 17:7 Lit. Nagid; i.e. a senior officer entrusted with dual roles of operational oversight and management authority
  2. 1 Chronicles 17:8 Lit. name
  3. 1 Chronicles 17:8 Lit. name
  4. 1 Chronicles 17:8 The Heb. lacks have lived