1 Chronicles 28:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² Then 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Then David the king rose to his feet and said, Hear me, my brethren and my people. I myself intended to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord, as a footstool for our God, and I prepared materials for the building.

American Standard Version (1901)

² 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.

Common English Bible

² Then King David stood up and said: Listen to me, my relatives and my people. I wanted to build a temple as the permanent home for the chest containing the LORD’s covenant, our God’s footrest. But when I prepared to build it,

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And when the king had risen up and was standing, he said: "Listen to me, my brothers and my people. I thought that I would build a house, in which the ark of the covenant of the Lord, the footstool of our God, might rest. And so I prepared everything for its building.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And the king rising up and standing said: Hear me, my brethren and my people. I had a thought to have built a house, in which the ark of the Lord and the footstool of our God might rest: and I prepared all things for the building.

1 Chronicles 28:2 Cross References

Genesis 48:2

When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has come to you,” he summoned his strength and sat up in bed.

1 Kings 1:47

Moreover, the king’s servants came to congratulate our lord King David, saying, ‘May God make the name of Solomon more famous than yours and make his throne greater than your throne.’ The king bowed in worship on the bed

1 Kings 5:3

“You know that my father David could not build a house for the name of the Lord his God because of the warfare with which his enemies surrounded him, until he put them under the soles of his feet.

1 Chronicles 17:4

“Go and tell my servant David: Thus says the Lord: You shall not build me a house to live in.

1 Chronicles 22:14

With great pains I have provided for the house of the Lord one hundred thousand talents of gold, one million talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond weighing, for there is so much of it; timber and stone also I have provided. To these you must add more.

1 Chronicles 22:6

Then he called for his son Solomon and charged him to build a house for the Lord, the God of Israel.

1 Chronicles 22:7

David said to Solomon, “My son, I had planned to build a house to the name of the Lord my God.

1 Chronicles 6:31

These are the men whom David put in charge of the service of song in the house of the Lord, after the ark came to rest there.

2 Chronicles 6:7

My father David had it in mind to build a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

Psalm 110:1

The Lord says to my lord, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool.”

Psalm 132:14

“This is my resting place forever; here I will reside, for I have desired it.

Psalm 132:2

how he swore to the Lord and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob,

Psalm 22:22

I will tell of your name to my brothers and sisters; in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:

Psalm 99:5

Extol the Lord our God; worship at his footstool. Holy is he!

Isaiah 60:13

The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the cypress, the plane, and the pine, to beautify the place of my sanctuary, and I will glorify where my feet rest.

Isaiah 66:1

Thus says the Lord: Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; so what kind of house could you build for me, what sort of place for me to rest?

Lamentations 2:1

How the Lord in his anger has humiliated daughter Zion! He has thrown down from heaven to earth the splendor of Israel; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

Ezekiel 43:7

He said to me: “Mortal, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet, where I will reside among the people of Israel forever. The house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their prostitution and by sacrificing to their kings at their death.

Matthew 25:16

the one who had received the five talents went off and traded with them and made five more talents.

Acts 7:49

‘Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest?

Deuteronomy 17:15

you may indeed set over you a king whom the Lord your God will choose. One of your own community you may set as king over you; you are not permitted to put a foreigner over you, who is not of your own community.

Deuteronomy 17:20

neither exalting himself above other members of the community nor turning aside from the commandment, either to the right or to the left, so that he and his descendants may reign long over his kingdom in Israel.