2 Chronicles 6:6-8

21st Century King James Version

⁶ but I have chosen Jerusalem, that My name might be there, and have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’

⁷ Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.

⁸ But the Lord said to David my father: ‘Inasmuch as it was in thine heart to build a house for My name, thou didst well in that t was in thine heart.