1 Chronicles 28:2-4

Revised Geneva Translation

² And King David stood up upon his feet, and said, “Hear me, my brethren and my people! I had intended to build a House of rest for the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD, and for a footstool for our God, and had made preparations for its building.

³ “But God said to me, ‘You shall not build a House for My Name, because you have been a man of war, and have shed blood.’

⁴ “Still, the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the House of my father, to be king over Israel forever (for He would choose a prince in Judah, and of the House of Judah is the House of my father, and among the sons of my father He delighted in me to make me king over all Israel).