2 Samuel 7:2
The king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is housed inside the curtains of a tent.
Bible in Basic English
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In Context
1Now when the king was living in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from war on every side;
3And Nathan said to the king, Go and do whatever is in your heart; for the Lord is with you.
Cross References
Exodus 40:21And he took the ark into the House, hanging up the veil before it as the Lord had given him orders.
2 Samuel 6:17And they took in the ark of the Lord, and put it in its place inside the tent which David had put up for it: and David made burned offerings and peace-offerings to the Lord.
2 Samuel 11:11And Uriah said to David, Israel and Judah with the ark are living in tents, and my lord Joab and the other servants of my lord are sleeping in the open field; and am I to go to my house and take food and drink, and go to bed with my wife? By the living Lord, and by the life of your soul, I will not do such a thing.
1 Kings 1:8But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet and Shimei and Rei, and David's men of war did not take the side of Adonijah.
1 Chronicles 14:1And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David with cedar-trees, and stoneworkers and woodworkers for the building of his house.
1 Chronicles 29:29Now all the acts of David, first and last, are recorded in the words of Samuel the seer, and the words of Nathan the prophet, and the words of Gad the seer;
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 7:2-4
David's Care of the Ark. ( b. c. 1042.) 1 And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the Lord had given him rest round about from all his enemies; 2 That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains. 3 And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thine heart; for the Lord is with thee. Here is, I. David at rest. He sat in his house ( v. 1 ), quiet and undisturbed, having no occasion to take the field: The Lord had given… Read the whole commentary →