1 Chronicles 28:2-4
New English Translation
2 King David rose to his feet and said: “Listen to me, my brothers and my people. I wanted to build a temple where the ark of the Lord’s covenant could be placed as a footstool for our God.[a] I have made the preparations for building it. 3 But God said to me, ‘You must not build a temple to honor me,[b] for you are a warrior and have spilled blood.’ 4 The Lord God of Israel chose me out of my father’s entire family to become king over Israel and have a permanent dynasty.[c] Indeed,[d] he chose Judah as leader, and my father’s family within Judah, and then he picked me out from among my father’s sons and made me king over all Israel.[e]
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- 1 Chronicles 28:2 tn Heb “I, [it was] with my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord and for a stool of the feet of our God.”
- 1 Chronicles 28:3 tn Heb “for my name.”
- 1 Chronicles 28:4 tn Heb “out of all the house of my father to become king over all Israel permanently.”
- 1 Chronicles 28:4 tn Or “for.”
- 1 Chronicles 28:4 tn Heb “and among the sons of my father he desired to make me king over all Israel.”
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