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Because God had helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD , seven bulls and seven rams were sacrificed.

David thought, "I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me." So David sent a delegation to express his sympathy to Hanun concerning his father. When David's men came to Hanun in the land of the Ammonites to express sympathy to him,

But Joab did not include Levi and Benjamin in the numbering, because the king's command was repulsive to him.

And God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and was grieved because of the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, "Enough! Withdraw your hand." The angel of the LORD was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

But David could not go before it to inquire of God, because he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the LORD .

But this word of the LORD came to me: 'You have shed much blood and have fought many wars. You are not to build a house for my Name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight.

His son Shemaiah also had sons, who were leaders in their father's family because they were very capable men.

David did not take the number of the men twenty years old or less, because the LORD had promised to make Israel as numerous as the stars in the sky.

But God said to me, 'You are not to build a house for my Name, because you are a warrior and have shed blood.'

Then King David said to the whole assembly: "My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is young and inexperienced. The task is great, because this palatial structure is not for man but for the LORD God.

Now David had brought up the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim to the place he had prepared for it, because he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.

"The temple I am going to build will be great, because our God is greater than all other gods.

to provide me with plenty of lumber, because the temple I build must be large and magnificent.

Hiram king of Tyre replied by letter to Solomon: "Because the LORD loves his people, he has made you their king."

14�and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the temple of God.

But the LORD said to my father David, 'Because it was in your heart to build a temple for my Name, you did well to have this in your heart.

"When your people Israel have been defeated by an enemy because they have sinned against you and when they turn back and confess your name, praying and making supplication before you in this temple,

"When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, and when they pray toward this place and confess your name and turn from their sin because you have afflicted them,

"As for the foreigner who does not belong to your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm-when he comes and prays toward this temple,

The priests could not enter the temple of the LORD because the glory of the LORD filled it.