2 Samuel 7:5
“Go and tell My servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Should you be the one to build Me a house in which to dwell?
1 Kings 5:3-4
“You know that David my father could not build a house (temple) for the Name (Presence) of the Lord his God because of the wars which surrounded him, until the Lord put his enemies under his feet.
1 Kings 8:16-19
‘Since the day that I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I did not choose a [particular] city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name (Presence) would be in it, but I chose David to be over My people Israel.’
1 Chronicles 17:4
“Go and tell David My servant, ‘Thus says the Lord, “You shall not build a house for Me to dwell in;
1 Chronicles 22:7-8
David said to Solomon, “My son, I had intended to build a house for the
1 Chronicles 23:3-32
The Levites thirty years old and upward were counted, and their number man by man was 38,000.