Discovery Box1 Chronicles 28:2-4 
Context28:2 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. 1 I have made the preparations for building it. 28:3 But God said to me, ‘You must not build a temple to honor me, 2 for you are a warrior and have spilled blood.’ 28:4 The Lord God of Israel chose me out of my father’s entire family to become king over Israel and have a permanent dynasty. 3 Indeed, 4 he chose Judah as leader, and my father’s family within Judah, and then he picked me out from among my father’s sons and made me king over all Israel. 5
1 tn Heb “I, with my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the
2 tn Heb “for my name.”
3 tn Heb “out of all the house of my father to become king over all Israel permanently.”
4 tn Or “for.”
5 tn Heb “and among the sons of my father he desired to make me king over all Israel.”
