[¹] Or, leader.
5. neither chose I any man to be prince over my people Israel] The Chronicler regards Saul as rejected rather than chosen; 1 Chronicles x. 13, 14.
that my name might be there] “Name” is used, as regularly in this connection, to signify the Divine character—God conceived as that which He has revealed Himself to be.
⁷Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. ⁸But the Lord said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart:
7. in the heart of David] Compare 1 Chronicles xvii. 1, 2, xxii. 7.
⁹nevertheless thou shall not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name. ¹⁰And the Lord hath performed his word that he spake; for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
9. thou shalt not build] Compare 1 Chronicles xxii. 8, note.
¹¹And there have I set the ark, wherein is the covenant of the Lord, which he made with the children of Israel.
11. the covenant] i.e. the two tables of stone, compare v. 10.
with the children of Israel] In 1 Kings viii. 21, with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.