2Sa 7:5 Cross References

2 Samuel 7:5

5: "Go and tell my servant David, `This is what the LORD says: Are you the one to build me a temple to live in?

1 Kings 5:3

  1. "You know that my father, David, was not able to build a Temple to honor the name of the LORD his God because of the many wars he waged with surrounding nations. He could not build until the LORD gave him victory over all his enemies.
  2. But now the LORD my God has given me peace on every side, and I have no enemies and all is well.

1 Chronicles 22:7

  1. "I wanted to build a Temple to honor the name of the LORD my God," David told him.
  2. "But the LORD said to me, `You have killed many men in the great battles you have fought. And since you have shed so much blood before me, you will not be the one to build a Temple to honor my name.

1 Chronicles 23:3

  1. All the Levites who were thirty years old or older were counted, and the total came to thirty-eight thousand.
  2. Then David said, "Twenty-four thousand of them will supervise the work at the Temple of the LORD. Six thousand are to serve as officials and judges.
  3. Four thousand will work as gatekeepers, and another four thousand will praise the LORD with the musical instruments I have made."
  4. Then David divided the Levites into divisions named after the clans descended from the three sons of Levi--Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
  5. The Gershonite family units were defined by their lines of descent from Libni and Shimei, the sons of Gershon.

1 Chronicles 17:4

  1. "Go and tell my servant David, `This is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build me a temple to live in.

1 Kings 8:16

  1. For he told my father, `From the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have never chosen a city among the tribes of Israel as the place where a temple should be built to honor my name. But now I have chosen David to be king over my people.'"
  2. Then Solomon said, "My father, David, wanted to build this Temple to honor the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
  3. But the LORD told him, `It is right for you to want to build the Temple to honor my name,
  4. but you are not the one to do it. One of your sons will build it instead.'
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