=3.= _the same night_] Genesis xx. 3; 1 Samuel iii. 2, 3; 1 Kings iii. 5; Job iv. 12, 13. ⁵for I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought up Israel, unto this day; but have gone¹ from tent to tent, and from _one_ tabernacle _to another_. ¹ Hebrew _have been_. =5.= _I brought up Israel_] i.e. _out of Egypt_ (so Samuel). _but have gone from tent to tent, and from_ one _tabernacle_ to another] Samuel _but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle_. The Hebrew text of Chronicles defies translation; that of Samuel is better. ⁶In all places wherein I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedar? =6.= _the judges_] A better reading than _the tribes_ (Samuel). ⁷Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote¹, from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be prince² over my people Israel: ⁸and I have been with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee; and I will make thee a name, like unto the name of the great ones that are in the earth. ¹ Or, _pasture_. ² Or, _leader_. =7.= _sheepcote_] Better as margin =pasture=. ⁹And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the first, =9.= _I will appoint_, etc.] i.e. will establish them in Canaan with complete ascendancy over their enemies. _waste them_] Samuel _afflict them_. ¹⁰and _as_ from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will¹ subdue all thine enemies. Moreover I tell thee that the LORD will build thee an house. ¹ Or, _have subdued_. =10.= _build thee an house_] Samuel _make thee an house_, the house meant being a dynasty, and not a building. ¹¹And it shall come to pass, when thy days be fulfilled that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom. =11.= _that thou must go to be with_] Samuel _and thou shalt sleep with_, the usual euphemism for “to die.” ¹²He shall build me an house, and I will establish his throne for ever. =12.= _me an house_] Samuel _an house for my name_. ¹³I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee: =13.= _my son_] Here Samuel adds, _If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the children of men_: this the Chronicler omits in order that not even a suggestion of the coming evil days might at this stage rest on David and his line.