1 Chronicles 22:8
22:8 But the Lord said to me: 1 ‘You have spilled a great deal of blood and fought many battles. You must not build a temple to honor me, 2 for you have spilled a great deal of blood on the ground before me.
1 Chronicles 22:14
22:14 Now, look, I have made every effort to supply what is needed to build the Lord’s temple. 3 I have stored up 100,000 talents 4 of gold, 1,000,000 5 talents of silver, and so much bronze and iron it cannot be weighed, as well as wood and stones. Feel free to add more!
1 Chronicles 22:19
22:19 Now seek the Lord your God wholeheartedly and with your entire being! 6 Get up and build the sanctuary of the Lord God! Then you can bring 7 the ark of the Lord’s covenant and the holy items dedicated to God’s service 8 into the temple that is built to honor the Lord.” 9
1 Chronicles 28:2
28:2 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. 10 I have made the preparations for building it.
1 tn Heb “and the word of the Lord was [i.e., came] to me saying.”
2 tn Heb “for my name.”
3 tn Heb “and look, in my affliction [or perhaps, “poverty”] I have supplied for the house of the Lord.”
4 tn See the note on the word “talents” in 19:6.
5 tn Heb “a thousand thousands.”
6 tn Heb “now give your heart and your being to seek the Lord your God.”
7 tn Heb “to bring.”
8 tn Heb “items of holiness of God.”
9 tn Heb “for the name of the Lord.”
10 tn Heb “I, 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.”