LORD, remember David
and all that he suffered.
He made a solemn promise to 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 eyes in slumber
until I find a place to build a house for the LORD,
a sanctuary for the Mighty One of Israel."
I
will not let my eyes sleep nor close my eyes in slumber until I find a
place to build a house for the LORD, a sanctuary for the Mighty One of
Israel." (continued from Part 2)
1 Kings 8:17-21
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, 'You wanted to build the Temple to honor my name. Your intention is good, but you are not the one to do it. One of your own sons will build the Temple to honor me.'
"And now the LORD has fulfilled the promise he made, for I have become king in my father's place, and now I sit on the throne of Israel, just as the LORD promised. I have built this Temple to honor the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. And I have prepared a place there for the Ark, which contains the covenant that the LORD made with our ancestors when he brought them out of Egypt." (see all 1 Kings 8)
Acts 7:46-50
"David found favor with God and asked for the privilege of building a permanent Temple for the God of Jacob. But it was Solomon who actually built it. However, the Most High doesn't live in temples made by human hands. As the prophet says,
'Heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool.
Could you build me a temple as good as that?'
asks the LORD.
'Could you build me such a resting place?
Didn't my hands make both heaven and earth?' " (Isaiah 66:1-2)
(see all Acts 7)
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