1 Chronicles 22:7Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

And David said to Solomon: My son, it was my desire to have built a house to the name of the Lord my God.
Douay-Rheims

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר דָּוִ֖יד לִשְׁלֹמֹ֑ה בנו בְּנִ֕י אֲנִי֙ הָיָ֣ה עִם־לְבָבִ֔י לִבְנ֣וֹת בַּ֔יִת לְשֵׁ֖ם יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהָֽי׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

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Philaret of Moscow (Drosdow)

19th centuryChurch Father

In later centuries, when King David desired to construct a permanent temple rather than a transient one, the Lord God took this task under His unique guidance. Since David had been involved in much warfare and bloodshed, He chose to entrust the temple's construction to his son Solomon, who ruled in a time of peace.

Cross references

Passages read together with this verse.

Ps 132 (131):5
Deut 12:5But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in it:
Deut 12:11In the place, which the Lord your God shall choose, that his name may be therein. Thither shall you bring all the things that I command you, holocausts, and victims, and tithes, and the firstfruits of your hands: and whatsoever is the choicest in the gifts which you shall vow to the Lord.
2 Chr 6:7And whereas David my father had a mind to build a house to the name of the Lord the God of Israel,
2 Chr 6:9But thou shalt not build the house, but thy son, who shall come out of thy loins, he shall build a house to my name.
1 Chr 29:3Now over and above the things which I have offered into the house of my God I give of my own proper goods, gold and silver for the temple of my God, beside what things I have prepared for the holy house.
Deut 12:21And if the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name should be there, be far off, thou shalt kill of thy herds and of thy flocks, as I have commanded thee, and shalt eat in thy towns, as it pleaseth thee.
2 Sam 7:2He said to Nathan the prophet: Dost thou see that I dwell in a house of cedar, and the ark of God is lodged within skins?