5Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God: …
Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel. …
Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand. …
Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:
Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-17)We have here a full revelation of God’s favour to David and the kind intentions of that favour, the notices and assurances of which God sent him by Nathan the prophet, whom he entrusted to deliver this long message to him. The design of it is to take him off from his purpose of building the temple and it was therefore sent, 1. By the same hand that had given him encouragement to do it, lest, if it…
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