1 Chronicles 28:2–7

²Then 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 Lord’s covenant^m and as a footstoolⁿ for our God. I had made preparations to build, ³but God said to me, ‘You are not to build a house for my name because you are a man of war and have shed blood.’^o

⁴“Yet the Lord God of Israel chose me out of all my father’s family^p to be king over Israel forever.^q For he chose Judah as leader,^r and from the house of Judah, my father’s family, and from my father’s sons,^s he was pleased to make me king over all Israel. ⁵And out of all my sons^t—for the Lord has given me many sons—he has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the Lord’s kingdom over Israel.^{u 6}He said to me,^v ‘Your son Solomon is the one who is to build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father. ⁷I will establish his kingdom forever if he perseveres in keeping my commands and my ordinances as he is doing today.’^w