2 Samuel7:2

Translation

Then the king said to NATHAN

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the prophet, “I ask you to please see this, I live in a house of cedar, but the ark of ELOHIM dwells inside curtains.”

Paraphrase

Then the king said to the prophet GIVEN BY GOD,  “I ask you to please consider this, I am living in a fancy, permanent house, but the special spot where THE CREATOR AND RULER OF ALL THINGS dwells is located

in a place that has no permanence and is not very nice.”

Footnotes

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The name NATHAN means “given or giver.” It was probably implied that this child was “given by God,” and that is why, in the paraphrase column, I include the assumption. We are familiar with the person in the New Testament whose name is “Nathaniel;” that name spells out that this child was “given by God.”