²⁸David assembled at Jerusalem all the officials of Israel, the officials of the tribes, the officers of the divisions that served the king, the commanders of the thousands, the commanders of the hundreds, the stewards of all the property and cattle of the king, and his sons, together with the palace officials, the mighty warriors, and all the warriors.^* ²Then King David rose to his feet and said, “Hear me, my brothers and my people. I had planned to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord, for the footstool of our God, and I made preparations for building.^* ³But God said to me, ‘You shall not build a house for my name, for you are a warrior and have shed blood.’^* ⁴Yet the Lord God of Israel chose me from all my ancestral house to be king over Israel forever, for he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah my father’s house, and among my father’s sons he took delight in making me king over all Israel.^* ⁵And of all my sons, for the Lord has given me many, he has chosen my son Solomon to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.^* ⁶He said to me, ‘It is your son Solomon who shall build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him to be a son to me, and I will be a father to him.^*

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Cross references

*1 Chr 11:10–47; 27:1–31
*2 Sam 7:2; 1 Chr 17:1, 2; Ps 132:7
*2 Sam 7:5, 13; 1 Chr 22:8
*Gen 49:8–10; 1 Sam 16:6–13; 1 Chr 5:2; 17:23, 27
*1 Chr 3:1–9; 22:9, 10
*2 Sam 7:13, 14; 1 Chr 22:9, 10