1 Chronicles 17:4
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4 Go and tell David my servant, Thus says the Lord: It is not you who are to build the house for me to dwell in.(A)
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1 Chronicles 22:7-10
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7 (A)David said to Solomon: “My son, it was my purpose to build a house myself for the name of the Lord, my God. 8 But this word of the Lord came to me: You have shed much blood, and you have waged great wars. You may not build a house for my name, because you have shed too much blood upon the earth in my sight. 9 However, a son will be born to you. He will be a peaceful man, and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side. For Solomon shall be his name, and in his time I will bestow peace[a] and tranquility on Israel.(B) 10 It is he who shall build a house for my name; he shall be a son to me, and I will be a father to him,(C) and I will establish the throne of his kingship over Israel forever.
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- 22:9 The Hebrew word for peace, shalom, is reflected in the name Solomon, in Hebrew, Shelomo. The Chronicler draws a contrast here between Solomon, the “peaceful man,” and David, who “waged great wars” (v. 8). David was prevented from building the Temple, not only because his time was taken up in waging war (1 Kgs 5:17), but also because he shed much blood (1 Chr 22:8), thereby making himself, in the Chronicler’s view, ritually unfit for the task.
2 Samuel 7:5
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5 Go and tell David my servant, Thus says the Lord: Is it you who would build me a house to dwell in?(A)
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1 Kings 5:3
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3 ten fatted oxen, twenty pasture-fed oxen, and a hundred sheep, not counting harts, gazelles, roebucks, and fatted fowl.
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Psalm 132:3-7
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3 “I will not enter the house where I live,(A)
nor lie on the couch where I sleep;
4 I will give my eyes no sleep,
my eyelids no rest,
5 Till I find a place for the Lord,
a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”
6 “We have heard of it in Ephrathah;[a]
we have found it in the fields of Jaar.
7 Let us enter his dwelling;
let us worship at his footstool.”(B)
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- 132:6 Ephrathah: the homeland of David, cf. Ru 4:11. The fields of Jaar: poetic for Kiriath-jearim, a town west of Jerusalem, where the ark remained for several generations, cf. 1 Sm 7:1–2; 2 Sm 6:2; 1 Chr 13:5–6.
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