1 Chronicles 28:2-8

2 Then King David rose to his feet and said: "Hear me, my brothers and my people. ¹I had it in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD and for the ²footstool of our God, and I made preparations for building.

3 But God said to me, ³'You may not build a house for my name, for you are a man of war and have shed blood.'

4 Yet the LORD God of Israel ⁴chose me from all my father's house to be king over Israel ⁵forever. ⁶For he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah my father's ⁷house, and among my father's sons he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.

5 And of ⁸all my sons (for the LORD has given me many sons) he ⁹has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.

6 He said to me, 'It is ¹⁰Solomon your son who shall build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.

7 I will establish his kingdom ¹¹forever ¹²if he continues strong in keeping my commandments and my rules, as he is today.'

8 Now therefore in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of the LORD your God, that you may possess this good land and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you forever.

1 Chronicles 28:2-8 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 28

David, having convened the principal men of the nation, declared Solomon his successor, whom God had chosen both to be king, and to build the temple, 1Ch 28:1-7, and exhorted both them and him to serve the Lord, and build an house for him, 1Ch 28:8-10, then gave Solomon the pattern of it, and an account of the materials he had prepared for it, 1Ch 28:11-19, and encouraged him to go about the work with alacrity and intrepidity, 1Ch 28:20,21.

Cross References

• 1. See 1 Chronicles 22:7
• 2. Psalms 99:5; Psalms 132:7; Isaiah 66:1; Lamentations 2:1; [Psalms 110:1]
• 3. See 2 Samuel 7:5, 13
• 4. 1 Samuel 16:12, 13
• 5. 1 Chronicles 17:23, 27
• 6. 1 Chronicles 5:2; Genesis 49:8; Psalms 78:68
• 7. 1 Samuel 16:1
• 8. See 1 Chronicles 3:1-9; 1 Chronicles 14:3-7
• 9. 1 Chronicles 22:9; 1 Chronicles 23:1
• 10. See 2 Samuel 7:13, 14
• 11. [See ver. 4 above]
• 12. [1 Chronicles 22:13]