2 Samuel 7:5
Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Wilt thou build me a house for me to dwell in?
1 Kings 5:3-4
Thou knowest how that David my father could not build a house to the name of the LORD his God, for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.
1 Kings 8:16-19
Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel from Egypt, I have chosen no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.
1 Chronicles 17:4
Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt 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 the LORD my God:
1 Chronicles 23:3-32
Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.