“Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a House for the Name of Adonai, the God of Israel.
10 fat oxen, 20 pasture-fed oxen, 100 sheep, beside deer, gazelles, roebucks and fatted geese.
After David settled in his place, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Look! I am living in a house of cedar, while the Ark of the Covenant of Adonai is under a tent.”
David said to Solomon, “My son, I had it in my heart to build a House for the name of Adonai my God.
But Adonai said to David my father: ‘As for you wanting in your heart to build a House for My Name, you did well that this was in your heart.