1 Chronicles 17:7

I took thee . (So 1 Samuel 16:11 , 1 Samuel 16:12 ; 2 Samuel 7:8 ; Psalms 78:1-72 :80.) The sheepcote . The Hebrew נָזֶה strictly signifies a resting or place of resting. Hence the habitation of men or of animals, and in particular the pasture in which flocks lie down and rest ( Psalms 23:2 , plural construction; Job 5:24 ; Hosea 9:13 ; Jeremiah 23:3 ; Jeremiah 49:20 ). The sheepcote was sometimes a tower, with roughly built high wall, exposed to the sky at the top, used for protection from wild beasts at night; sometimes the sheepfold was a larger low building of different shape, to which a fenced courtyard was adjacent, where the peril of cold or of wild beast was less imminent. The word of our present passage, however, cannot be compared with these places; comp. rather Exodus 15:13 ; 2 Samuel 15:25 ; Isaiah 33:20 ; Isaiah 65:10 ; Hosea 9:13 , as above.