2 Then King David rose to his feet and said: “Hear me, my brothers and my people. I had it pin my heart to build a house of rest qfor the ark of the covenant of the Lord and for the rfootstool of our God, and sI made preparations for building.
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1 Chronicles 17:2
And Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you.”
1 Chronicles 22:7
David said to Solomon, “My son, I had it in my heart to build a house to the name of the LORD my God.
1 Kings 8:6
Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the Most Holy Place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.
1 Kings 8:21
And there I have provided a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD that he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”
1 Chronicles 22:19
Now set your mind and heart to seek the LORD your God. Arise and build the sanctuary of the LORD God, so that the ark of the covenant of the LORD and the holy vessels of God may be brought into a house built for the name of the LORD.”
2 Chronicles 5:7
Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place, in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the Most Holy Place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.
2 Chronicles 6:11
And there I have set the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD that he made with the people of Israel.”
Psalm 99:5
Exalt the LORD our God;
worship at his footstool!
Holy is he!
Psalm 132:7
“Let us go to his dwelling place;
let us worship at his footstool!”
Lamentations 2:1
How the Lord in his anger
has set the daughter of Zion under a cloud!
He has cast down from heaven to earth
the splendor of Israel;
he has not remembered his footstool
in the day of his anger.
1 Chronicles 22:2–5
David commanded to gather together the resident aliens who were in the land of Israel, and he set stonecutters to prepare dressed stones for building the house of God. David also provided great quantities of iron for nails for the doors of the gates and for clamps, as well as bronze in quantities beyond weighing, and cedar timbers without number, for the Sidonians and Tyrians brought great quantities of cedar to David. For David said, “Solomon my son is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and glory throughout all lands. I will therefore make preparation for it.” So David provided materials in great quantity before his death.
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