2 Samuel 7:2
He said to Nathan the prophet: Dost thou see that I dwell in a house of cedar, and the ark of God is lodged within skins?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
3And Nathan said to the king: Go, do all that is in thy heart: because the Lord is with thee.
Cross References
Exodus 40:21Setting there in order the loaves of proposition, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
2 Samuel 6:17And they brought the ark of the Lord, and set it in its place in the midst of the tabernacle, which David had pitched for it: and David offered holocausts, and peace offerings before the Lord.
2 Samuel 11:11And Urias said to David: The ark of God and Israel and Juda dwell in tents, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord abide upon the face of the earth: and shall I go into my house, to eat and to drink, and to sleep with my wife? By thy welfare and by the welfare of thy soul I will not do this thing.
1 Kings 1:8But Sadoc the priest, and Banaias the son of Joiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Semei, and Rei, and the strength of David's army was not with Adonias.
1 Chronicles 14:1And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.
1 Chronicles 29:29Now the acts of king David first and last are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book 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 →