1 Chronicles 28:2

David explained that he had longed to build a resting place for the ark but had only prepared for it. It reveals his heart's desire to honor God with a temple.

Cross-references · 20

• Ps 99:5Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy.
• Isa 66:1Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
• Lam 2:1How hath the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
• 1 Chr 17:1–2Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains.
• Heb 2:11–12For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
• 1 Chr 22:14Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.
• Ps 22:22I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
• 1 Kgs 1:47And moreover the king’s servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, God make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne. And the king bowed himself upon the bed.
• 1 Chr 11:1–3Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
• 1 Chr 18:7–11And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadarezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
• Deut 17:20That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
• Acts 7:49Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?
• 2 Sam 7:1–2And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies;
• Ps 132:14This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
• Deut 17:15Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.
• 1 Kgs 8:17–18And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
• 1 Chr 6:31And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark had rest.
• 1 Chr 22:2–5And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.
• Ps 132:3–8Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;
• Gen 48:2And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.

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