Text: 1 Chronicles 28:2-3
OT Text Referred to: 2 Samuel 7:1-17
Subject: David forbidden to build; Solomon commissioned
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment
Significance: 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).