1 Tawarikh 17:6

17:6 Wherever I moved throughout Israel, I did not say ¹  to any of the leaders whom I appointed to care for my people Israel, ²  ‘Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?’”’

1 Tawarikh 17:13

17:13 I will become his father and he will become my son. I will never withhold my loyal love from him, as I withheld it from the one who ruled before you. ³ 

[17:6]  ¹ tn In the Hebrew text the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question (“Did I say?”) meaning “I did not say.”

[17:6]  ² tn Heb “to one of the judges of Israel whom I commanded to shepherd my people.”

[17:13]  ³ sn The one who ruled before you is a reference to Saul, from whom the kingdom was taken and given to David.