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 Yahweh our God. Worship at his footstool. He is Holy!
• Isa 66:1Yahweh says, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest?
• Lam 2:1How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty of Israel, And hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
• 1 Chr 17:1–2When David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of Yahweh’s covenant is in a tent.”
• Heb 2:11–12For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,
• 1 Chr 22:14Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for Yahweh’s house one hundred thousand talents of gold, one million talents of silver, and brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance. I have also prepared timber and stone; and you may add to them.
• Ps 22:22I will declare your name to my brothers. Among the assembly, I will praise you.
• 1 Kgs 1:47Moreover the king’s servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne;’ and the king bowed himself on the bed.
• 1 Chr 11:1–3Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
• 1 Chr 18:7–11David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
• Deut 17:20that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn 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 middle of Israel.
• Acts 7:49‘heaven is my throne, and the earth a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me?’ says the Lord; ‘or what is the place of my rest?
• 2 Sam 7:1–2When the king lived in his house, and Yahweh had given him rest from all his enemies all around,
• Ps 132:14“This is my resting place forever. Here I will live, for I have desired it.
• Deut 17:15you shall surely set him king over yourselves, whom Yahweh your God chooses. You shall set as king over you one from among your brothers. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
• 1 Kgs 8:17–18“Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
• 1 Chr 6:31These are they whom David set over the service of song in Yahweh’s house, after the ark came to rest there.
• 1 Chr 22:2–5David gave orders to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to cut dressed stones to build God’s house.
• Ps 132:3–8“Surely I will not come into the structure of my house, nor go up into my bed;
• Gen 48:2Someone told Jacob, and said, “Behold, your son Joseph comes to you,” and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed.

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