1 Chronicles 28:2-4

Evangelical Heritage Version

Listen to me, my brothers and my people. In my heart I wanted to build a house as a resting place for the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord and as a footstool for our God. So I made preparations to build. ³ But God said to me, “You will not build a house for my name because you are a man of war, and you have shed blood.” ⁴ Yet the Lord, the God of Israel, chose me from the whole house of my father to become king over Israel forever, because he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah he chose the house of my father, and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.