David: Difference between revisions

===Preparing to Build the Temple===

David wanted to build the temple of God, feeling guilty that the ark of the covenant of God was under a tent while he was living in a palace of cedar. God was pleased with David’s heart and let him build the temple through his son Solomon.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.studylight.org/study-desk.html?q1=1+Chronicles+22%3A6-10&q2=&ss=0&t1=eng_n84&t2=eng_kjv&t3=eng_nas&ns=0&sr=1&ot=bhs&nt=wh&hv1=1&b=verse&d=3|title=1 Chronicles 22:6–10|quote=}}</ref><br>At the end of his reign, David bought the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite (or Araunah) ([https://www.studylight.org/study-desk.html?q1=2+Samuel+24&q2=&ss=0&t1=eng_n84&t2=eng_kjv&t3=eng_nas&ns=0&sr=1&ot=bhs&nt=wh&hv1=1&b=verse&d=3 2 Samuel 24]). It was the site of Mount Moriah where Abraham, in obedience to God’s word, took Isaac to offer him as a burnt offering. There, Abraham, by God’s grace, slaughtered a ram instead of Isaac and sacrificed it.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.studylight.org/study-desk.html?q1=Genesis+22%3A2-13&q2=&ss=0&t1=eng_n84&t2=eng_kjv&t3=eng_nas&ns=0&sr=1&ot=bhs&nt=wh&hv1=1&b=verse&d=3|title=Genesis 22:2-13|quote= }}</ref> David prepared Ornan’s threshing floor as the land for the temple, and handed the plans, funds, and building materials over to his son Solomon ([https://www.studylight.org/study-desk.html?q1=1+Chronicles+22%2C28%2C+29&q2=&ss=0&t1=eng_n84&t2=eng_kjv&t3=eng_nas&ns=0&sr=1&ot=bhs&nt=wh&hv1=1&b=verse&d=3 1 Chronicles 22; 28–29]). Later, Solomon built the temple and moved the ark of the covenant to the temple from the city of David, that is, the city of Zion.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.studylight.org/study-desk.html?q1=1+Kings+8%3A1%2C+6&q2=&ss=0&t1=eng_n84&t2=eng_kjv&t3=eng_nas&ns=0&sr=1&ot=bhs&nt=wh&hv1=1&b=verse&d=3|title=1 Kings 8:1, 6|quote=}}</ref>