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No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for 2 Samuel 7:2.
II Samuel 7:1-7
Excerpted from: Don't Leave the House!You can see very clearly there that the context is the building of a structure. David lived inside a house of cedar. He got to thinking, "Boy, I live in this nice house and God lives in a tent. It shouldn't be that way. God should have a better house than that. God should live in a house of cedar too."
That was a good thought. He had good intentions. But, God comes back and says, "No, I don't need a house. When the time comes for a house we will do something else but I've never said a word about that. David, don't you worry about that, I am perfectly content to live in a tent."
Now, wait a minute. David already said he had a nice house. Is God going to build him another house? An even nicer house? No, because now God is shifting the emphasis from a building to something else: a family. Now we are seeing the word house being a metonymy for a family.
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