- Now David assembled at Jerusalem all the officials of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the commanders of the divisions that served the king, and the commanders of thousands, and the commanders of hundreds, and the overseers of all the property and livestock belonging to the king and his sons, with the officials and the mighty men, even all the valiant men.
- Then King David rose to his feet and said, "Listen to me, my brethren and my people; I had intended to build a permanent home for the ark of the covenant of the LORD and for the footstool of our God. So I had made preparations to build it.
- "But God said to me, 'You shall not build a house for My name because you are a man of war and have shed blood.'
- "Yet, the LORD, the God of Israel, chose me from all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever For He has chosen Judah to be a leader; and in the house of Judah, my father's house, and among the sons of my father He took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.
- "Of all my sons (for the LORD has given me many sons), He has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.
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- 大衛招聚以色列各支派的首領、和輪班服事王的軍長、與千夫長、百夫長、掌管王和王子產業牲畜的、並太監、以及大能的勇士、都到耶路撒冷來。
- 大衛王就站起來、說、我的弟兄、我的百姓阿、你們當聽我言、我心裡本想建造殿宇、安放耶和華的約櫃、作為我 神的腳凳.我已經豫備建造的材料。
- 只是 神對我說、你不可為我的名建造殿宇、因你是戰士、流了人的血。
- 然而耶和華以色列的 神、在我父的全家揀選我作以色列的王、直到永遠.因他揀選猶大為首領、在猶大支派中揀選我父家、在我父的眾子裡喜悅我、立我作以色列眾人的王。
- 耶和華賜我許多兒子.在我兒子中、揀選所羅門坐耶和華的國位、治理以色列人。
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