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Allusion
Later text
Then King David rose to his feet and said, "Listen to me, my brothers and my people. It was in my heart to build a house as a resting place for the ark of the covenant of the LORD and as a footstool for our God. I had made preparations to build it, but God said to me, 'You are not to build a house for My Name, because you are a man of war who has spilled blood.'
Earlier text
After the king had settled into his palace and the LORD had given him rest from all his enemies around him, he said to Nathan the prophet, "Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God remains in a tent." And Nathan replied to the king, "Go and do all that is in your heart, for the LORD is with you." But that night the word of the LORD came to Nathan, saying, "Go and tell My servant David that this is what the LORD says: Are you the one to build for Me a house to dwell in? For I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought the Israelites up out of Egypt until this day, but I have moved about with a tent as My dwelling. In all My journeys with all the Israelites, have I ever asked any of the leaders I appointed to shepherd My people Israel, 'Why haven't you built Me a house of cedar?' Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler over My people Israel. I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make for you a name like the greatest in the land. And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning and have done since the day I appointed judges over My people Israel. I will give you rest from all your enemies. The LORD declares to you that He Himself will establish a house for you. And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom. He will build a house for My Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men. But My loving devotion will never be removed from him as I removed it from Saul, whom I moved out of your way. Your house and kingdom will endure forever before Me, and your throne will be established forever." So Nathan relayed to David all the words of this entire vision.
2 Samuel 7:1-17 contains God's oracle stating that David's son, not David himself, would build the temple. 1 Chronicles 28:2-3 provides David's public speech explaining this prohibition in explicit terms not found in Samuel: "I had it in my heart to build a house of rest (בֵּית מְנוּחָה, bet menuchah) for the ark of the covenant of the LORD... But God said to me, 'You shall not build a house for My Name, because you are a man of war (אִישׁ מִלְחָמוֹת, ish milchamot) and have shed blood.'" This rationale — that David's warrior status disqualified him from temple-building — is the Chronicler's distinctive theological explanation, absent from the Samuel oracle. The Chronicler thus supplements Samuel's covenantal framework with a purity-based logic: the temple requires a man of peace (שְׁלֹמֹה/shelomoh = Solomon, from שָׁלוֹם/shalom).