2 Samuel 7:5
"Go and tell my servant David, thus sayeth the LORD, 'Shalt thou go build me a house for the LORD to dwell in?
1 Kings 5:3-4
"Thou knowest of David my father, how he could not build a house unto the name of the LORD his God for war which he had on every side, until the LORD had put them under his foot.
1 Kings 8:16-19
'From the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city among any of the tribes of Israel, to build a house, that my name might be there: But I have chosen David to be ruler over my people Israel.'
1 Chronicles 17:4
"Go and tell David my servant, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: thou shalt not build me a house to dwell in.
1 Chronicles 22:7-8
And David said to Salomon, "My son, I had in mine heart to build a house unto the name of the LORD my God.
1 Chronicles 23:3-32
And the Levites were numbered from thirty years and above, and the tale of them in men, poll by poll, was thirty eight thousand.