1Chronicles:28:2-4

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* Then David the king stood up upon his feet , and said , Hear me , my brethren , and my people : As for me , I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD , and for the footstool hadom # of our God , and had made ready for the building : * But God said unto me , Thou shalt not build an house for my name , because thou hast been a man of war , and hast shed blood . * Howbeit the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever : for he hath chosen Judah to be the ruler ; and of the house of Judah , the house of my father ; and among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all Israel Yisra #el #:

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