“Go and tell My servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Would you build a house for Me to dwell in?
“Go and tell My servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord: “You shall not build Me a house to dwell in.
But it happened that night that the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying,
“Concerning this temple which you are building, if you walk in My statutes, execute My judgments, keep all My commandments, and walk in them, then I will perform My word with you, which I spoke to your father David.
Thus says the Lord: “Heaven is My throne, And earth is My footstool. Where is the house that you will build Me? And where is the place of My rest?
And the king commanded them to quarry large stones, costly stones, and hewn stones, to lay the foundation of the temple.
But God said to me, ‘You shall not build a house for My name, because you have been a man of war and have shed blood.’
The preparations of the heart belong to man, But the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.