2 Samuel 7:5
Go and tell My servant David, So says Jehovah, Shall you build Me a house for My dwelling?
1 Kings 5:3-4
You know how David my father could not build a house to the name of Jehovah his God because of the wars which were around him on every side, until Jehovah put them under the soles of his feet.
1 Kings 8:16-19
From the day that I brought forth My people Israel out of Egypt, I did not choose any city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, so that My name might be in it. But I chose David to be over My people Israel.
1 Chronicles 17:4
Go and tell David My servant, So says Jehovah, You shall not build Me a house to dwell in.
1 Chronicles 22:7-8
And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build a house to the name of Jehovah my God.
1 Chronicles 23:3-32
And the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward. And their number by their heads, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.