Then David the king stood up on his feet and said, “Hear me, my brothers and my people! As for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the LORD’s covenant, and for the footstool of our God; and I had prepared for the building.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 2. Rising up from his bed, on which he lay, on account of his great age and weakness, while he addressed himself to his son; (3 Kennicott. 1:47. Calmet.) or he rose from his throne, to honor this grand assembly. Hebrew “stood upon his feet.” Bible.—Thought. Hebrew “I, with my heart, thought to,” and so forth Calmet.—And, or which is the footstool. Bible.—The ark is often so called, because God was considered as sitting upon the wings of the cherubim, over it. Psalms 98:1. and so forth—Building. No doubt what David left would have been sufficient. Yet Solomon thought that he could make something still more magnificent.