2 Samuel 7:5
Go and say to my servant, to David, Thus saith Jehovah: Wilt thou build me a house for me to dwell in?
1 Kings 5:3-4
Thou knowest that David my father could not build a house unto the name of Jehovah his God, because of the wars which were about him on every side, until Jehovah 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 in, that my name might be there; but I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
1 Chronicles 17:4
Go and say to David my servant, Thus saith Jehovah: Thou shalt not build me a house to dwell in;
1 Chronicles 22:7-8
And David said to Solomon, As for me, my son, I was minded to build a house unto the name of Jehovah 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.