2 Samuel 7:2
2the king said to aNathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell bin a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells cin a tent.”2 Samuel 7:6-7
6I have not lived in a house dsince the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about ein a tent for my dwelling. 7In all places where fI have moved with all the people of Israel, did I speak a word with gany of the judges ▼▼Compare 1 Chronicles 17:6; Hebrew tribes
of Israel, whom I commanded ito shepherd my people Israel, saying, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?”’ 1 Kings 5:14
14And he sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month in shifts. They would be a month in Lebanon and two months at home. jAdoniram was in charge of the draft.1 Kings 6:15-18
15He lined the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar. From the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood, kand he covered the floor of the house with boards of cypress. 16 lHe built twenty cubits of the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls, and he built this within as an inner sanctuary, as mthe Most Holy Place. 17The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long. 18The cedar within the house was carved in the form of ngourds and open flowers. All was cedar; no stone was seen.
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