O Lord, there is none like you; there is no God besides you! What we heard is true!

Now, O Lord, you are the true God; you have made this good promise to your servant.

Be strong! Let’s fight bravely for the sake of our people and the cities of our God! The Lord will do what he decides is best!”

Gad went to David and told him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Pick one of these:

So the Lord sent a plague through Israel, and 70,000 Israelite men died.

At that time, when David saw that the Lord responded to him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.

Now the Lord’s tabernacle (which Moses had made in the wilderness) and the altar for burnt sacrifices were at that time at the worship center in Gibeon.

David then said, “This is the place where the temple of the Lord God will be, along with the altar for burnt sacrifices for Israel.”

He summoned his son Solomon and charged him to build a temple for the Lord God of Israel.

in using gold, silver, bronze, and iron. Get up and begin the work! May the Lord be with you!”

4,000 are to be gatekeepers; and 4,000 are to praise the Lord with the instruments I supplied for worship.”

For David said, “The Lord God of Israel has given his people rest and has permanently settled in Jerusalem.

They and their relatives, all of them skilled and trained to make music to the Lord, numbered two hundred eighty-eight.

These divisions of the gatekeepers, corresponding to their leaders, had assigned responsibilities, like their relatives, as they served in the Lord’s temple.

and the sons of Jehieli, Zetham and his brother Joel. They were in charge of the storehouses in the Lord’s temple.

Realize now that the Lord has chosen you to build a temple as his sanctuary. Be strong and do it!”

David said, “All of this I put in writing as the Lord directed me and gave me insight regarding the details of the blueprints.”

All who possessed precious stones donated them to the treasury of the Lord’s temple, which was under the supervision of Jehiel the Gershonite.

Solomon son of David solidified his royal authority, for the Lord his God was with him and magnified him greatly.

(1:18) Solomon ordered a temple to be built to honor the Lord, as well as a royal palace for himself.