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2 Samuel 7:6 KJV
2 Samuel · chapter 7 · verse 6
Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.2 Samuel 7:6 · King James Version
2 Samuel 7:6 in context
4And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came unto Nathan, saying,
5Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?
6Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.
7In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?
8Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- tabernaclemishkâna residence (including a shepherd's hut, the lair of animals, figuratively, the graveH4908 →
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- walkedhâlakto walkH1980 →
- dweltyâshabproperly, to sit downH3427 →
- housebayitha houseH1004 →
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We have here a full revelation of God's favour to David and the kind intentions of that favour, the notices and assurances of which God sent him by Nathan the prophet, whom he entrusted to deliver this long message to him.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 4-17