Acts 7:46 Cross References

Acts 7:46

46: "David found favor with God and asked for the privilege of building a permanent Temple for the God of Jacob.

But God removed him from the kingship and replaced him with David, a man about whom God said, 'David son of Jesse is a man after my own heart, for he will do everything I want him to.'

LORD, remember David and all that he suffered.
He took an oath before the LORD. He vowed to the Mighty One of Israel,
"I will not go home; I will not let myself rest.
I will not let my eyes sleep nor close my eyelids in slumber
until I find a place to build a house for the LORD, a sanctuary for the Mighty One of Israel."

When the LORD had brought peace to the land and King David was settled in his palace,
David summoned Nathan the prophet. "Look!" David said. "Here I am living in this beautiful cedar palace, but the Ark of God is out in a tent!"
Nathan replied, "Go ahead and do what you have in mind, for the LORD is with you."
But that same night the LORD said to Nathan,
"Go and tell my servant David, `This is what the LORD says: Are you the one to build me a temple to live in?

Now when David was settled in his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, "Here I am living in this beautiful cedar palace, but the Ark of the LORD's covenant is out in a tent!"
Nathan replied, "Go ahead with what you have in mind, for God is with you."
But that same night God said to Nathan,
"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.

Then King David went in and sat before the LORD and prayed, "Who am I, O Sovereign LORD, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far?
And now, Sovereign LORD, in addition to everything else, you speak of giving me a lasting dynasty! Do you deal with everyone this way, O Sovereign LORD?

Finally, the LORD said to Samuel, "You have mourned long enough for Saul. I have rejected him as king of Israel. Now fill your horn with olive oil and go to Bethlehem. Find a man named Jesse who lives there, for I have selected one of his sons to be my new king."

"Now go and say to my servant David, `This is what the LORD Almighty says: I chose you to lead my people Israel when you were just a shepherd boy, tending your sheep out in the pasture.
I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have destroyed all your enemies. Now I will make your name famous throughout the earth!
And I have provided a permanent homeland for my people Israel, a secure place where they will never be disturbed. It will be their own land where wicked nations won't oppress them as they did in the past,
from the time I appointed judges to rule my people. And I will keep you safe from all your enemies. "`And now the LORD declares that he will build a house for you--a dynasty of kings!
For when you die, I will raise up one of your descendants, and I will make his kingdom strong.

David retorted to Michal, "I was dancing before the LORD, who chose me above your father and his family! He appointed me as the leader of Israel, the people of the LORD. So I am willing to act like a fool in order to show my joy in the LORD.

You once spoke in a vision to your prophet and said, "I have given help to a warrior. I have selected him from the common people to be king.
I have found my servant David. I have anointed him with my holy oil.
I will steady him, and I will make him strong.
His enemies will not get the best of him, nor will the wicked overpower him.
I will beat down his adversaries before him and destroy those who hate him.

He chose instead the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved.
There he built his towering sanctuary, as solid and enduring as the earth itself.
He chose his servant David, calling him from the sheep pens.
He took David from tending the ewes and lambs and made him the shepherd of Jacob's descendants--God's own people, Israel.
He cared for them with a true heart and led them with skillful hands.

Then Samuel asked, "Are these all the sons you have?There is still the youngest," Jesse replied. "But he's out in the fields watching the sheep.Send for him at once," Samuel said. "We will not sit down to eat until he arrives."
So Jesse sent for him. He was ruddy and handsome, with pleasant eyes. And the LORD said, "This is the one; anoint him."
So as David stood there among his brothers, Samuel took the olive oil he had brought and poured it on David's head. And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him from that day on. Then Samuel returned to Ramah.

The LORD swore to David a promise he will never take back: "I will place one of your descendants on your throne.

David rose and stood before them and addressed them as follows: "My brothers and my people! It was my desire to build a temple where the Ark of the LORD's covenant, God's footstool, could rest permanently. I made the necessary preparations for building it,
but God said to me, `You must not build a temple to honor my name, for you are a warrior and have shed much blood.'
"Yet the LORD, the God of Israel, has chosen me from among all my father's family to be king over Israel forever. For he has chosen the tribe of Judah to rule, and from among the families of Judah, he chose my father's family. And from among my father's sons, the LORD was pleased to make me king over all Israel.
And from among my sons--for the LORD has given me many children--he chose Solomon to succeed me on the throne of his kingdom of Israel.

Then Solomon said, "My father, David, wanted to build this Temple to honor the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
But the LORD told him, `It is right for you to want to build the Temple to honor my name,
but you are not the one to do it. One of your sons will build it instead.'

"I wanted to build a Temple to honor the name of the LORD my God," David told him.
"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.

And Samuel said to him, "See? The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to someone else--one who is better than you.

Using every resource at my command, I have gathered as much as I could for building the Temple of my God. Now there is enough gold, silver, bronze, iron, and wood, as well as great quantities of onyx, other precious stones, costly jewels, and all kinds of fine stone and marble.
And now because of my devotion to the Temple of my God, I am giving all of my own private treasures of gold and silver to help in the construction. This is in addition to the building materials I have already collected for his holy Temple.

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