1 Kings 5:17

New American Bible - revised edition

“You know that David my father, because of the wars that beset him, could not build a house for the name of the Lord his God until such time as the Lord should put his enemies under the soles of his feet.

Cross References

2 Samuel 22:39

I struck them down, and they did not rise; they fell dead at my feet.

2 Samuel 7:5

Go and tell David my servant, Thus says the Lord: Is it you who would build me a house to dwell in?

1 Kings 6:7

The house was built of stone dressed at the quarry, so that no hammer or ax, no iron tool, was to be heard in the house during its construction.

1 Kings 7:9

All these buildings were of fine stones, hewn to size and trimmed front and back with a saw, from the foundation to the bonding course and outside as far as the great court.

1 Chronicles 22:2

David then ordered that the resident aliens in the land of Israel should be brought together, and he appointed them stonecutters to hew out stone blocks for building the house of God.

1 Chronicles 22:8

But this word of the Lord came to me: You have shed much blood, and you have waged great wars. You may not build a house for my name, because you have shed too much blood upon the earth in my sight.

Isaiah 28:16

Therefore, thus says the Lord God: See, I am laying a stone in Zion, a stone that has been tested, A precious cornerstone as a sure foundation; whoever puts faith in it will not waver.