“Go and tell my servant David, ‘This is what the Lord says: You are not the person to build a house for me to live in.
But that night, the Lord’s word came to Nathan. The Lord said,
King Solomon commanded them to cut out big, expensive stones to be the foundation for the temple. These stones were carefully cut.
“If you obey all my laws and commands, I will do the thing for you that I promised your father David.
God said, “Go and tell these things to my servant David: The Lord says, ‘David, you are not the person to build a house for me to live in.
But God said to me, ‘No David, you must not build a house for my name. You must not do that because you are a soldier, and you have killed many men.’
People make their plans. But it is the Lord who makes those things happen.
This is what the Lord says,\par “The skies are my throne.\par The earth is my footstool.\par So do you think you can build\par a house for me?\par No! You can’t!\par Can you give me a place to rest?\par No! You can’t!\par