1 Chronicles 28:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: As for me, I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building:

Stood up

Genesis 48:2

1 Kings 1:47

My brethren

I had in mine heart

1 Chronicles 17:1

2 Samuel 7:1

1 Kings 8:17

Rest

1 Chronicles 6:31

The footstool

Had made ready

1 Chronicles 18:7

1 Chronicles 22:2

General references

Exodus 35:21

1 Kings 8:17

2 Chronicles 6:7

Bible References

Stood up

And when they said to Jacob, Your son Joseph is coming to see you: then Israel, getting all his strength together, had himself lifted up in his bed.

And the king's servants came to our lord King David, blessing him and saying, May God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and the seat of his authority greater than your seat; and the king was bent low in worship on his bed.

My brethren

Then all Israel came together to David at Hebron, and said, Truly, we are your bone and your flesh.

Then see that you take as your king the man named by the Lord your God: let your king be one of your countrymen, not a man of another nation who is not one of yourselves.

I will give the knowledge of your name to my brothers: I will give you praise among the people.

For he who makes holy and those who are made holy are all of one family; and for this reason it is no shame for him to give them the name of brothers,

I had in mine heart

Now when David was living in his house, he said to Nathan the prophet, See, I am living in a house of cedar-wood, but the ark of the Lord's agreement is under the curtains of a tent.

Now when the king was living in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from war on every side;

Now it was in the heart of David my father to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

Rest

And these are those whom David made responsible for the music in the house of the Lord, after the ark had rest.

The footstool

Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping at his feet; holy is he.

The Lord says, Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is the resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, and what place will be my resting-place?

How has the daughter of Zion been covered with a cloud by the Lord in his wrath! he has sent down from heaven to earth the glory of Israel, and has not kept in memory the resting-place of his feet in the day of his wrath.

Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is a resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, says the Lord, or what is my place of rest?

Had made ready

And the gold body-covers of the servants of Hadadezer, David took to Jerusalem.

And David gave orders to get together all the men from strange lands who were in the land of Israel; and he put stone-cutters to work, cutting stones for building the house of God.

General references

And everyone whose heart was moved, everyone who was guided by the impulse of his spirit, came with his offering for the Lord, for whatever was needed for the Tent of meeting and its work and for the holy robes.

Now it was in the heart of David my father to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

Now it was in the heart of my father David to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.