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Selected Verse: 2 Samuel 7:7 - Strong Concordance

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2Sa 7:7 Strong Concordance In all the places wherein I have walked [01980] with all the children [01121] of Israel [03478] spake [01696] I a word [01697] with any [0259] of the tribes [07626] of Israel [03478], whom I commanded [06680] to feed [07462] my people [05971] Israel [03478], saying [0559], Why build [01129] ye not me an house [01004] of cedar [0730]?
  King James In 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?

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
The tribes of Israel - The duplicate passage reads judges (see margin and compare Sa2 7:11). But a comparison with such passages as Psa 78:67-68; Kg1 8:16; and Ch1 28:4, favors the reading "tribes," and the phrase is a condensed one, the meaning of which is, that whatever tribe had in times past supplied the ruler of Israel, whether Ephraim in the days of Joshua, or Benjamin in the time of Saul, or Judah in that of David, God had never required any of these tribes to build a house in one of their cities.

An house of cedar - See Kg1 7:2-3; Kg1 10:17, Kg1 10:21; Jer 22:14, Jer 22:23. Beams of cedar marked a costly building. The cedar of Lebanon is a totally different tree from what we improperly call the red or Virginian cedar, which supplies the sweet-scented cedar wood, and is really a kind of juniper. The cedar of Lebanon is a close-grained, light-colored, yellowish wood, with darker knots and veins.
 
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23 O inhabitant [03427] of Lebanon [03844], that makest thy nest [07077] in the cedars [0730], how gracious [02603] shalt thou be when pangs [02256] come [0935] upon thee, the pain [02427] as of a woman in travail [03205] !
14 That saith [0559], I will build [01129] me a wide [04060] house [01004] and large [07304] chambers [05944], and cutteth him out [07167] windows [02474]; and it is cieled [05603] with cedar [0730], and painted [04886] with vermilion [08350].
21 And all king [04428] Solomon's [08010] drinking [04945] vessels [03627] were of gold [02091], and all the vessels [03627] of the house [01004] of the forest [03293] of Lebanon [03844] were of pure [05462] gold [02091]; none were of silver [03701]: it was nothing [03972] accounted [02803] of in the days [03117] of Solomon [08010].
17 And he made three [07969] hundred [03967] shields [04043] of beaten [07820] gold [02091]; three [07969] pound [04488] of gold [02091] went [05927] to one [0259] shield [04043]: and the king [04428] put [05414] them in the house [01004] of the forest [03293] of Lebanon [03844].
2 He built [01129] also the house [01004] of the forest [03293] of Lebanon [03844]; the length [0753] thereof was an hundred [03967] cubits [0520], and the breadth [07341] thereof fifty [02572] cubits [0520], and the height [06967] thereof thirty [07970] cubits [0520], upon four [0702] rows [02905] of cedar [0730] pillars [05982], with cedar [0730] beams [03773] upon the pillars [05982].
3 And it was covered [05603] with cedar [0730] above [04605] upon the beams [06763], that lay on forty [0705] five [02568] pillars [05982], fifteen [06240] in a row [02905].
4 Howbeit the LORD [03068] God [0430] of Israel [03478] chose [0977] me before all the house [01004] of my father [01] to be king [04428] over Israel [03478] for ever [05769]: for he hath chosen [0977] Judah [03063] to be the ruler [05057]; and of the house [01004] of Judah [03063], the house [01004] of my father [01]; and among the sons [01121] of my father [01] he liked [07521] me to make me king [04427] over all Israel [03478]:
16 Since the day [03117] that I brought forth [03318] my people [05971] Israel [03478] out of Egypt [04714], I chose [0977] no city [05892] out of all the tribes [07626] of Israel [03478] to build [01129] an house [01004], that my name [08034] might be therein; but I chose [0977] David [01732] to be over my people [05971] Israel [03478].
67 Moreover he refused [03988] the tabernacle [0168] of Joseph [03130], and chose [0977] not the tribe [07626] of Ephraim [0669]:
68 But chose [0977] the tribe [07626] of Judah [03063], the mount [02022] Zion [06726] which he loved [0157].
11 And as since the time [03117] that I commanded [06680] judges [08199] to be over my people [05971] Israel [03478], and have caused thee to rest [05117] from all thine enemies [0341]. Also the LORD [03068] telleth [05046] thee that he will make [06213] thee an house [01004].
11 And as since the time [03117] that I commanded [06680] judges [08199] to be over my people [05971] Israel [03478], and have caused thee to rest [05117] from all thine enemies [0341]. Also the LORD [03068] telleth [05046] thee that he will make [06213] thee an house [01004].
6 Wheresoever I have walked [01980] with all Israel [03478], spake [01696] I a word [01697] to any [0259] of the judges [08199] of Israel [03478], whom I commanded [06680] to feed [07462] my people [05971], saying [0559], Why have ye not built [01129] me an house [01004] of cedars [0730]?