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

Psalm 132:3

The footstool

Acts 7:49

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 one told Jacob and said, Behold, thy son Joseph is coming to thee. And Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.

And moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, Thy God make the name of Solomon more excellent than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne! And the king bowed himself on the bed.

My brethren

And all Israel assembled themselves to David to Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

thou shalt only set him king over thee whom Jehovah thy God will choose: from among thy brethren shalt thou set a king over thee; thou mayest not set a foreigner over thee, who is not thy brother.

I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

For both he that sanctifies and those sanctified are all of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

I had in mine heart

And it came to pass as David dwelt in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Behold, I dwell in a house of cedars, and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah under curtains.

And it came to pass when the king dwelt in his house, and Jehovah had given him rest round about from all his enemies,

And it was in the heart of David my father to build a house unto the name of Jehovah the God of Israel.

Rest

And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of Jehovah after that the ark was in rest.

I will not come into the tent of my house, I will not go up to the couch of my bed;

The footstool

Exalt Jehovah our God, and worship at his footstool. He is holy!

Let us go into his habitations, let us worship at his footstool.

Thus saith Jehovah: The heavens are my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what is the house that ye will build unto me? and what is the place of my rest?

How hath the Lord in his anger covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud! He hath cast down from the heavens unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger.

The heaven is my throne and the earth the footstool of my feet: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord, or where is the place of my rest?

Had made ready

And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadarezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.

And David commanded to collect the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.

General references

And they came, every one whose heart moved him, and every one whose spirit prompted him; they brought Jehovah's heave-offering for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy garments.

And it was in the heart of David my father to build a house unto the name of Jehovah the God of Israel.