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1 Chronicles 28:2

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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 of our God, and had made ready for the building:

Then David {H1732} the king {H4428} stood up {H6965} upon his feet {H7272}, and said {H559}, Hear {H8085} me, my brethren {H251}, and my people {H5971}: As for me, I had in mine heart {H3824} to build {H1129} an house {H1004} of rest {H4496} for the ark {H727} of the covenant {H1285} of the LORD {H3068}, and for the footstool {H1916}{H7272} of our God {H430}, and had made ready {H3559} for the building {H1129}:

Then David the king rose to his feet and said: "My kinsmen and my people! Listen to me! I set my heart on building a house where the ark for the covenant of ADONAI could remain at rest. It would have been God's footstool, and I prepared to build it.

Then King David rose to his feet and said, “Listen to me, my brothers and my people. It was in my heart to build a house as a resting place for the ark of the covenant of the LORD and as a footstool for our God. I had made preparations to build it,

Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: as for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and for the footstool of our God; and I had made ready for the building.

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Cross-References

  • Isaiah 66:1 (4 votes)

    ¶ Thus saith the LORD, The heaven [is] my throne, and the earth [is] my footstool: where [is] the house that ye build unto me? and where [is] the place of my rest?

  • Psalms 99:5 (4 votes)

    Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; [for] he [is] holy.

  • 1 Chronicles 17:1 (3 votes)

    ¶ Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD [remaineth] under curtains.

  • 1 Chronicles 17:2 (3 votes)

    Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that [is] in thine heart; for God [is] with thee.

  • Lamentations 2:1 (3 votes)

    ¶ How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, [and] cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!

  • Psalms 132:3 (2 votes)

    Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;

  • Psalms 132:8 (2 votes)

    Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength.