2 King David got to his feet and said, "Listen to me, my brothers and my people! I really wanted to build a house as a resting place for the Ark of the Lord’s Agreement, as a footstool for our God. So I made plans to build it. 3 But God told me, ‘You are not to build a house to honor me because you are a man of war who has spilled blood.’
6 He told me, ‘Your son Solomon is the one who will build my house and my courts, because I have chosen him as my son, and I will be his father.