2 Samuel 7:5
"Go and tell my servant David, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Shall you build me a house for me to dwell in?
1 Kings 5:3-4
"You know how that David my father could not build a house for the name of Yahweh his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until Yahweh 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, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.'
1 Chronicles 17:4
"Go and tell David my servant, 'Thus says Yahweh, "You shall not build me a house to dwell in;
1 Chronicles 22:7-8
David said to Solomon his son, "As for me, it was in my heart to build a house to the name of Yahweh my God.
1 Chronicles 23:3-32
The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.