Teks -- 2 Samuel 7:7 (NET)

7:7 Wherever I moved among all the Israelites, I did not say to any of the leaders whom I appointed to care for my people Israel, “Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?”’

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Clarke: 2Sa 7:7 - With any of the tribes

With any of the tribes - "Spake I a word to any of the Judges"is the reading in the parallel place, 1Ch 17:6, and this is probably the true reading. Indeed, there is but one letter of difference between them, and letters which might be easily mistaken for each other: שבטי shibtey , tribes, is almost the same in appearance with שפטי ht shophetey , judges; the ב beth and the פ pe being the same letter, the apex under the upper stroke of the פ pe excepted. If this were but a little effaced in a MS., it would be mistaken for the other, and then we should have tribes instead of judges. This reading seems confirmed by 2Sa 7:11.

TSK: 2Sa 7:7 - walked // any of the tribes // feed

walked : Lev 26:11, Lev 26:12

any of the tribes : 1Ch 17:6, any of the judges, Instead of שׁבטי , shivtey , ""tribes,""we should probably read, with Houbigant, Drs. Waterland and A. Clarke, and others, שׁפטי , shophtey , ""judges;""which is the reading in the parallel passage. Indeed there is but one letter of difference between them, and letters which might be easily mistaken for each other; the apex under the upper stroke of the פ , pay , being the only mark to distinguish it from the ב , baith . Compare with 2Sa 7:11.

feed : 2Sa 5:2; Psa 78:71, Psa 78:72; Isa 40:11; Jer 3:15, Jer 23:4; Eze 34:2, Eze 34:15, Eze 34:23; Mic 5:4; Mat 2:6 *marg. Joh 21:15-17; Act 20:28, Act 21:28; 1Pe 5:1

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Poole: 2Sa 7:7 - Spake I a word? // With any of the tribes // whom I commanded to feed my people Israel

Spake I a word? did I ever give any command about it? without which neither they did, nor thou shouldst attempt it.

With any of the tribes: in 1Ch 17:6 , it is of the judges; and to them, not to the tribes, the following words agree,

whom I commanded to feed my people Israel Either therefore the tribes are here put synecdochically for the rulers of the tribes, as the word church is sometimes used for the governors of it; or the word here rendered tribes may be rendered sceptres , as it is used Gen 49:10 , and sceptres put for sceptre-bearers or rulers , as is very frequent.

Haydock: 2Sa 7:7 - Tribes

Tribes. 1 Paralipomenon xvii. 6, by the substitution of p for b, reads Shophete, "judges," which seems more natural. Some farther information is there given and we learn that the reason why David was denied the privilege of building a temple, was because he had been so much engaged in war. (Calmet)

Gill: 2Sa 7:7 - 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

In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel,.... See Gill on 2Sa 7:6 on the places mentioned there:

spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel; or rather the sceptres of Israel; so the word is rendered, Gen 49:10; the sceptre bearers, rulers, and governors, whose custom was to carry a sceptre in their hands, as Ben Melech observes; and so in a parallel text, 1Ch 17:6, it is, "to any of the judges of Israel"; any of those from the times of Moses and Joshua to the times of Saul and David, and this is confirmed by what follows:

whom I commanded to feed my people Israel; that is, to rule and govern them, protect and defend them, which cannot be said of the tribes, but of the rulers of them; and the Lord asks this question, whether ever he had said a word to any of those, in all that space of time, expressing anything of this kind:

saying, why build ye not me an house of cedar? they never were bid to do it, or expostulated with why they did not, or ever reproved for not doing it; therefore why should David think of doing it?