2 Samuel 7:5
"Go and tell my servant David, 'Thus says the LORD: Would you build me a house to dwell in?
1 Kings 5:3-4
"You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of the LORD his God because of the warfare with which his enemies surrounded him, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.
1 Kings 8:16-19
'Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which 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 my servant David, 'Thus says the LORD: It is not you who will build me a house to dwell in.
1 Chronicles 22:7-8
David said to Solomon, "My son, I had it in my heart to build a house to the name of the LORD my God.
1 Chronicles 23:3-32
The Levites, thirty years old and upward, were numbered, and the total was 38,000 men.