1 Chronicles 17:4

David my servant. — Samuel, “unto my servant, unto David.”

Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in. — Rather, It is not thou that shalt build me the house to dwell in. Samuel, interrogatively, implying a negation, “Wilt thou build me a house for me to dwell in?” The chronicler, thinking of the famous Temple of Solomon, writes, “the house.”