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2 Samuel 7:2

berkatalah raja kepada nabi Natan: "Lihatlah, aku ini diam dalam rumah dari kayu aras, padahal tabut Allah diam di bawah tenda."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ark;   Liberality;   Nathan;   Palace;   Temple;   Zeal, Religious;   Thompson Chain Reference - Cedar;   Curtains;   Leaders;   Nathan;   Prophets;   Religious;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prophets;   Temple, the First;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Nathan;   Temple;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Nathan;   Prophecy, prophet;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - False Prophet;   Israel;   Mediator, Mediation;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Cedar;   David;   Nathan;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Beth;   Curtains;   Rabbah;   Temple;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Dwelling;   King, Kingship;   Samuel, Books of;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Covenant;   David;   Jerusalem;   Nathan;   Samuel, Books of;   Temple;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Nathan ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Temple;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Cedar;   David;   Nathan;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Na'than;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Curtain;   David;   Nathan (1);   Samuel, Books of;   Tent;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ark of the Covenant;   David;   Jerusalem;   Temple of Solomon;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
berkatalah raja kepada nabi Natan: "Lihatlah, aku ini diam dalam rumah dari kayu aras, padahal tabut Allah diam di bawah tenda."
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
maka titah baginda kepada nabi Natan: Bahwasanya aku ini duduk dalam sebuah istana dari pada kayu araz, maka tabut Allah itu duduk di tengah-tengah kain kelambu!

Contextual Overview

1 Afterward when the king sate in his house, & the Lord had geuen him rest round about from all his enemies, 2 The king sayde vnto Nathan the prophete: Beholde, I dwell nowe in an house of Cedar trees, but the arke of God dwelleth within the curtaynes. 3 And Nathan sayde to the king: Go, and do all that is in thyne heart, for the Lord is with thee.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Nathan: 2 Samuel 12:1, 1 Chronicles 29:29

I dwell: 2 Samuel 5:11, 1 Chronicles 14:1, Jeremiah 22:13-15, Haggai 1:4

the ark: Psalms 132:5, John 2:17, Acts 7:46

curtains: 2 Samuel 6:17, Exodus 26:1-14, Exodus 40:21, 1 Chronicles 16:1, 2 Chronicles 1:4

Reciprocal: Exodus 26:2 - curtain Exodus 35:17 - The hangings 1 Samuel 1:9 - General 2 Samuel 11:11 - The ark 2 Samuel 15:25 - habitation 2 Samuel 16:11 - came forth 1 Kings 1:8 - Nathan 1 Kings 1:26 - General 1 Kings 4:5 - son of Nathan 1 Kings 8:17 - General 1 Chronicles 3:5 - Nathan 1 Chronicles 13:2 - and that it be 1 Chronicles 17:1 - as David 1 Chronicles 22:7 - it was in 1 Chronicles 28:2 - I had in mine heart 2 Chronicles 6:7 - General 2 Chronicles 29:25 - Nathan Psalms 30:1 - at the Jeremiah 22:14 - ceiled with cedar Hosea 12:9 - yet Zechariah 12:12 - Nathan

Cross-References

Genesis 7:1
And the Lord said vnto Noah: come thou and al thy house into ye arke: for thee haue I seen ryghteous before me in this generation.
Genesis 7:8
Of cleane beastes, and of vncleane beastes, and of foules, and of euery such as creepeth vpon the earth,
Genesis 7:11
In the sixe hundreth yere of Noahs lyfe, in the seconde moneth, the seuenteene day of ye moneth, in the same day were all the fountaynes of the great deepe broken vp, and the wyndowes of heauen were opened.
Genesis 7:15
And they came vnto Noah into the arke, two and two, of all fleshe wherein is the breath of lyfe.
Genesis 7:19
And the waters preuayled exceedingly vpon the earth, and al the high hilles that are vnder the whole heauen, were couered.
Genesis 7:21
And all fleshe perished, that moued vpon the earth, in foule, in cattell, in beast, and in euery worme that creepeth vpon the earth, yea, and euery man also.
Genesis 8:20
And Noah builded an aulter vnto ye Lorde, and tooke of euery cleane beast, and of euery cleane foule, & offred burnt offering on the aulter
Leviticus 10:10
And that ye may put difference betweene holy and vnholy, betweene vncleane and cleane:
Ezekiel 44:23
They shall shewe my people the difference betweene the holy and vnholy, and cause them to discerne betwixt the cleane and vncleane.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That the king said unto Nathan the prophet,.... This is the first time this prophet is made mention of, but often afterwards, yet who he was, and from whence he came, is not known; he appears to be a man of great piety and prudence, as well as endowed with a prophetic spirit, and was very familiar with David, and perhaps dwelt in his palace; being a man on all accounts fit for conversation with princes, to whom David imparted what he had been meditating upon in his heart. The Jews have a tradition t that he was the same with Jonathan the son of Shimea, the brother of David, 2 Samuel 21:21; which is not very likely:

see now, I dwell in an house of cedar; made of the cedars of Lebanon; see what a spacious palace it is:

but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains; in a tabernacle within curtains, as the Targum; not the tabernacle of Moses, for that was at Gibeon, 1 Chronicles 21:29; but that which David had made for it, which consisted of curtains that were drawn around it, 2 Samuel 6:17. It gave him a concern that he should dwell in so magnificent a palace, and the ark of God should have so mean an habitation; wherefore it was upon his mind to build a grand edifice for it, and this he suggested hereby to Nathan, and so he understood him, as appears by what follows; and the rather he was led to such a thought, being now at rest and in peace; for then it was an house was to be built for God, in which he would cause his name to dwell, as David might easily learn from Deuteronomy 12:9; and who so proper to set forward such a work as a king, and he when at rest from his enemies?

t Hieron. Trad. Heb. in 2 Reg. fol. 79. M. & in lib. Paralipom. fol. 89. B. F.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Nathan the prophet - Here first mentioned, but playing an important part afterward (e. g. 2 Samuel 12:1; 1Ki 1:10; 1 Chronicles 29:29; 2 Chronicles 9:29). From the two last passages it appears that he wrote the history of David’s reign, and a part at least of Solomon’s. His distinctive title is the prophet, that of Gad the seer (compare 1 Samuel 9:9). He was probably nuch younger than David. In 2 Samuel 7:3, he spoke his own private opinion; in 2 Samuel 7:4, this was corrected by the word of the Lord.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 7:2. I dwell in a house of cedar — That is, a house whose principal beams, ceiling, and wainscot, were cedar.

Dwelleth within curtains. — Having no other residence but the tabernacle, which was a place covered with the skins of beasts, Exodus 26:14.


 
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