1 Chronicles 17:1

Compare throughout 2 Samuel 7 and the notes found there.

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Now — This whole chapter is explained, 2 Samuel 7:1-29 , where the same things are recorded with little variation.

¹ Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains.

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1 Chronicles 17:1