2 Samuel 7:3

7:3 Nathan replied to the king, “You should go ¹  and do whatever you have in mind, ²  for the Lord is with you.”

2 Samuel 7:1

The Lord Establishes a Covenant with David

7:1 The king settled into his palace, ³  for the Lord gave him relief ⁴  from all his enemies on all sides. ⁵ 

1 Raja-raja 8:17

8:17 Now my father David had a strong desire ⁶  to build a temple to honor the Lord God of Israel. ⁷ 

1 Raja-raja 8:1

Solomon Moves the Ark into the Temple

8:1 ⁸ Then Solomon convened in Jerusalem ⁹  Israel’s elders, all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families, so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the Lord’s covenant from the city of David (that is, Zion). ¹⁰ 

1 Tawarikh 22:7

22:7 David said to Solomon: “My son, I really wanted ¹¹  to build a temple to honor ¹²  the Lord my God.

[7:3]  ¹ tc Several medieval Hebrew mss and the Syriac Peshitta lack this word.

[7:3]  ² tn Heb “all that is in your heart.”

[7:1]  ³ tn Heb “house” (also in the following verse).

[7:1]  ⁴ tn Or “rest.”

[7:1]  ⁵ tn The translation understands the disjunctive clause in v. 1b as circumstantial-causal.

[8:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “and it was with the heart of David my father.”

[8:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “to build a house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.” The word “name” in the OT sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor. The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name.

[8:1]  ⁸ tc The Old Greek translation includes the following words at the beginning of ch. 8: “It so happened that when Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple and his own house, after twenty years.”

[8:1]  ⁹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[8:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Then Solomon convened the elders of Israel, the heads of the tribes, the chiefs of the fathers belonging to the sons of Israel to King Solomon [in] Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the city of David (it is Zion).”

[22:7]  ¹¹ tn Heb “I was with my heart.”

[22:7]  ¹² tn Heb “for the name of.”