² King David rose to his feet and said, “My fellow citizens,^[a] may I have your attention. I intended to build a house of rest for the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord, for a footstool of our God, so I began preparations for its construction. ³ But then God told me, ‘You will not build a temple to my name, because you are a man of war, and you have committed bloodshed.’^{[b] 4} Nevertheless, the Lord God of Israel chose me from my entire ancestral household to be king over Israel forever, since he had chosen Judah as Commander-in-Chief.^[c] In my ancestor Judah’s household, from my father’s household, and from among my father’s sons it pleased him to make me king over all of Israel.