1 Chronicles 28:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

Then David the king got up and said, Give ear to me, my brothers and my people; it was my desire to put up a house, a resting-place for the ark of the Lord's agreement, and for the foot-rest of our God; and I had got material ready for the building of it.

Cross References

Genesis 48:2

And when they said to Jacob, Your son Joseph is coming to see you: then Israel, getting all his strength together, had himself lifted up in his bed.

1 Kings 1:47

And the king's servants came to our lord King David, blessing him and saying, May God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and the seat of his authority greater than your seat; and the king was bent low in worship on his bed.

1 Kings 5:3

You have knowledge that David my father was not able to make a house for the name of the Lord his God, because of the wars which were round him on every side, till the Lord put all those who were against him under his feet.

1 Chronicles 17:4

Go and say to David my servant, The Lord says, You are not to make me a house for my living-place:

1 Chronicles 22:14

Now see, poor though I am, I have got ready for the house of the Lord a hundred thousand talents of gold and a million talents of silver; and a weight of brass and iron greater than may be measured; and wood and stone have I made ready, and you may put more to it.

1 Chronicles 22:6

Then he sent for his son Solomon, and gave him orders for the building of a house for the Lord, the God of Israel.

1 Chronicles 22:7

And David said to Solomon, My son, it was my desire to put up a house for the name of the Lord my God.

1 Chronicles 6:31

And these are those whom David made responsible for the music in the house of the Lord, after the ark had rest.

2 Chronicles 6:7

Now it was in the heart of my father David to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

Psalm 110:1

A Psalm. Of David. The Lord said to my lord, Be seated at my right hand, till I put all those who are against you under your feet.

Psalm 132:14

This is my rest for ever: here will I ever be; for this is my desire.

Psalm 132:2

How he made an oath to the Lord, and gave his word to the great God of Jacob, saying,

Psalm 22:22

I will give the knowledge of your name to my brothers: I will give you praise among the people.

Psalm 99:5

Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping at his feet; holy is he.

Isaiah 60:13

The glory of Lebanon will come to you, the cypress, the plane, and the sherbin-tree together, to make my holy place beautiful; and the resting-place of my feet will be full of glory.

Isaiah 66:1

The Lord says, Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is the resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, and what place will be my resting-place?

Lamentations 2:1

How has the daughter of Zion been covered with a cloud by the Lord in his wrath! he has sent down from heaven to earth the glory of Israel, and has not kept in memory the resting-place of his feet in the day of his wrath.

Ezekiel 43:7

And he said to me, Son of man, this is the place where the seat of my power is and the resting-place of my feet, where I will be among the children of Israel for ever: and no longer will the people of Israel make my holy name unclean, they or their kings, by their loose ways and by the dead bodies of their kings;

Matthew 25:16

Straight away he who had been given the five talents went and did trade with them, and made five more.

Acts 7:49

Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is a resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, says the Lord, or what is my place of rest?

Deuteronomy 17:15

Then see that you take as your king the man named by the Lord your God: let your king be one of your countrymen, not a man of another nation who is not one of yourselves.

Deuteronomy 17:20

So that his heart may not be lifted up over his countrymen, and he may not be turned away from the orders, to one side or the other: but that his life and the lives of his children may be long in his kingdom in Israel.