2 Samuel 7:5
Go and tell my servant David, Thus says LORD, Shall thou build a house for me to dwell in?
1 Kings 5:3-4
Thou know how that David my father could not build a house for the name of LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until LORD put them under the soles of his feet.
1 Kings 8:16-19
Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there, but I chose David to be over my people Israel.
1 Chronicles 17:4
Go and tell David my servant, Thus says LORD, Thou shall not build for me a house to dwell in.
1 Chronicles 22:7-8
And David said to Solomon his son, As for me, it was in my heart to build a house to the name of LORD my God.
1 Chronicles 23:3-32
And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward. And their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.