²² in whom you also are built together spiritually^[a] into a dwelling place for God.

⁴⁶ who found favor with God and asked that he might find a dwelling place for the house of Jacob.^{[a](A) 47} But it was Solomon who built a house for him. ⁴⁸ Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made with human hands;^[b] as the prophet says,^(B)

⁶ But who is able to build him a house, since heaven, even highest heaven, cannot contain him? Who am I to build a house for him except as a place to make offerings before him?^(A)

⁷ David said to Solomon, “My son, I had planned to build a house to the name of the Lord my God.^(A)

The Worship God Demands

¹² He said to them, “You are the heads of families of the Levites; sanctify yourselves, you and your kindred, so that you may bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it.^(A)

³ David assembled all Israel in Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the Lord to its place, which he had prepared for it.^(A)

²⁷ “But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, much less this house that I have built!^(A)

¹⁷ They brought in the ark of the Lord and set it in its place, inside the tent that David had pitched for it, and David offered burnt offerings and offerings of well-being before the Lord.^(A)