⁷ Now it was in the heart of my father David to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

³ You have knowledge that David my father was not able to make a house for the name of the Lord his God, because of the wars which were round him on every side, till the Lord put all those who were against him under his feet.

¹ Now when David was living in his house, he said to Nathan the prophet, See, I am living in a house of cedar-wood, but the ark of the Lord's agreement is under the curtains of a tent.

² The king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is housed inside the curtains of a tent.

³ And Nathan said to the king, Go and do whatever is in your heart; for the Lord is with you.

¹⁷ Now it was in the heart of David my father to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

⁷ And David said to Solomon, My son, it was my desire to put up a house for the name of the Lord my God.

² Then David the king got up and said, Give ear to me, my brothers and my people; it was my desire to put up a house, a resting-place for the ark of the Lord's agreement, and for the foot-rest of our God; and I had got material ready for the building of it.

³ But God said to me, You are not to be the builder of a house for my name, because you are a man of war and have taken life;

⁴ Though the Lord, the God of Israel, took me out of all my father's family, to be king over Israel for ever, marking out Judah to be chief, and, of the people of Judah, my father's family; and among the sons of my father he was pleased to make me king over all Israel;