⁵ Till I have got a place for the Lord, a resting-place for the great God of Jacob.

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.

²² In whom you, with the rest, are united together as a living-place of God in the Spirit.

¹⁷ And they took in the ark of the Lord, and put it in its place inside the tent which David had put up for it: and David made burned offerings and peace-offerings to the Lord.

²⁷ But is it truly possible that God may be housed on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place; how much less this house which I have made!

³ And David made all Israel come together at Jerusalem, to take the ark of the Lord to its place, which he had got ready for it.

¹² And said to them, You are the heads of the families of the Levites: make yourselves holy, you and your brothers, so that you may take the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place which I have made ready for it.

⁶ But who may have strength enough to make a house for him, seeing that the heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be his resting-place? who am I then to make a house for him? But I am building it only for the burning of perfume before him.

¹ The Lord says, Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is the resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, and what place will be my resting-place?

⁴⁶ Who was pleasing to God; and he had a desire to make a holy tent for the God of Jacob.

⁴⁷ But Solomon was the builder of his house.

⁴⁸ But still, the Most High has not his resting-place in houses made with hands, as the prophet says,

⁴⁹ Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is a resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, says the Lord, or what is my place of rest?