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 spoke to Jacob, and said, Behold, your son Joseph comes to you. And Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed.

And also the king's servants came to bless our lord King David, saying, May God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne. And the king bowed himself upon the bed.

My brethren

And all Israel gathered to David, to Hebron, saying, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.

you shall surely set a king over you, whom Jehovah your God shall choose. You shall set a king over you from among your brothers. You may not set a stranger over you, who is not your brother.

I will declare Your name to My brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will praise You.

For both He who sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of One, for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brothers,

I had in mine heart

And it happened as David sat in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in a house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of Jehovah is under curtains.

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

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

Rest

And these are the men whom David set over the service of song in the house of Jehovah, after the ark had rest.

Surely I will not come into the tent of my house, nor go up into my bed;

The footstool

Praise Jehovah our God, and worship at His footstool; He is holy.

We will go into His dwellings; we will worship at His footstool.

So says Jehovah, Heaven is My throne, and earth My footstool. Where, then, is the house that you build for Me? And where is the place of My rest?

How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in His anger! He cast down the beauty of Israel from the heavens to the earth and remembered not His footstool in the day of His anger.

"Heaven is My throne and earth is My footstool. What house will you build Me, says the Lord, or what is the place of My rest?

Had made ready

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

And David commanded the strangers in the land of Israel to be gathered. And he set masons to cut squared stones to build the house of God.

General references

And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom His spirit made willing. They brought Jehovah's offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all His service, and for the holy garments.

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

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