2 Samuel 7:5

Hebrew Bible

4 That night the Lord’s message came to Nathan, 5 “Go, tell my servant David, ‘This is what the Lord has said: Do you really intend to build a house for me to live in? 6 I have not lived in a house from the time I brought the Israelites up from Egypt to the present day. Instead, I was traveling with them and living in a tent.

LXX 2 Samuel 7:5

Septuagint

4 And it happened during that night that the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying, 5 “Go and say to my servant, David, this is what the Lord says, ‘You will not build for me a house for me to dwell in. 6 For I have not lived in a house from that day I brought the sons of Israel up from Egypt until this day, and I am living in a temporary home and in a tent.

 Notes and References
"... The identification of the motif of a passage is always in a situation when God poses a question. In Genesis 3:9, God’s question to Adam is retained in the Septuagint (Ἀδάµ, ποῦ εἶ;) which proved to be problematic for ancient anti-Christian critiques. When God speaks to David concerning the construction of the temple in 2 Samuel 7:5, however, the interrogative particle ה of the Masoretic text is replaced by the particle οὐ in a statement of prohibition, influenced by 1 Chronicles 17:4. It was not David but Solomon who built the temple,114 and it seemed impossible for the translator to attribute to God a possibility that did not, in fact, come to pass ..."

Meiser, Martin The Septuagint and Its Reception: Collected Essays (p. 18) Mohr Siebeck, 2022

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