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1 Chronicles 17:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
1 Chronicles 17:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
5 For I have not lived in a house since the day I brought out Israel to this very day, but I have lived in a tent and a tabernacle.[a] 6 Wherever I have moved about among all Israel, did I ever speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, Why have you not built me a house of cedar? 7 Now therefore thus you shall say to my servant David: Thus says the Lord of hosts: I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people Israel;
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- 1 Chronicles 17:5 Gk 2 Sam 7.6: Heb but I have been from tent to tent and from tabernacle
1 Chronicles 17:5-7
New International Version
1 Chronicles 17:5-7
New International Version
5 I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought Israel up out of Egypt to this day. I have moved from one tent site to another, from one dwelling place to another. 6 Wherever I have moved with all the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their leaders[a] whom I commanded to shepherd my people, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?(A)”’
7 “Now then, tell my servant David, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty says: I took you from the pasture, from tending the flock, and appointed you ruler(B) over my people Israel.
Footnotes
- 1 Chronicles 17:6 Traditionally judges; also in verse 10
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