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 it was told to Jacob, "Behold, your son Joseph has come to you." Then Israel strengthened himself and he sat up in the bed.

The servants of the king also came to congratulate our lord King David, saying, 'Your God has made the name of Solomon better than your name and his throne greater than your throne!' So the king worshiped on the bed.

My brethren

Then all Israel gathered to David in Hebron, saying, "Look--we are your flesh and bones.

indeed, you may set a king over you whom Yahweh your God will choose, from the midst of your countrymen you must set a king over you; you are not allowed to appoint over you a man, a foreigner, who [is] not your countryman.

I will tell your name to my brothers; inside [the] assembly I will praise you.

For both the one who sanctifies and the ones who are sanctified [are] all from one, for which reason he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

I had in mine heart

And as David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, "Look, I live in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh [is] under tent curtains."

It happened that the king settled in his house. (Now Yahweh had given rest to him from all his enemies all around.)

{David my father desired} to build a house for the name of Yahweh the God of Israel,

Rest

Now these [are the men] whom David appointed for {control of singing} in the house of Yahweh where the ark rested.

"I will not enter into the tent of my house, I will not go up to the couch of my bed,

The footstool

Exalt Yahweh our God, and worship at his footstool. He [is] holy.

Let us go to his dwelling places; Let us worship at his footstool.

Thus says Yahweh: "Heaven [is] my throne, and the earth [is] the footstool for my feet. Where [is] this house that you would build for me? And where [is] this resting place for me?

How, {in his anger}, the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion in a cloud! He has thrown down from heavens [to] earth the splendor of Israel, and he has not remembered his footstool in the day of {his anger}.

'Heaven [is] my throne and earth [is] the footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what [is the] place of my rest?

Had made ready

And David took small round shields of gold that were upon the servants of Hadadezer and brought them [to] Jerusalem.

And David commanded to assemble the resident aliens who [were] in the land of Israel and appointed stone craftsmen to cut dressed stones to build the house of God.

General references

And they came--every man whose heart lifted him and every man whose spirit impelled him--they brought Yahweh's contribution for the work of the tent of assembly and for all its service and for the holy garments.

{David my father desired} to build a house for the name of Yahweh the God of Israel,

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