Study Desk

O Yahweh, there is none like You, and there is no God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

And what one nation in the earth is like Your people Israel, whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people, to make You a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed out of Egypt?

Yet You gave Your people Israel to be Your own people forever, and You, O Yahweh, have become their God.

that Your name endure and be magnified forever, by saying, ‘Yahweh of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel; and the house of David Your servant is established before You.'

For You, O my God, have revealed in the hearing of Your slave that You will build for him a house; therefore Your slave has found courage to pray before You.

So now, O Yahweh, You are God, and You have promised this good thing to Your slave.

Be strong, and let us show strength for the sake of our people and for the cities of our God; and may Yahweh do what is good in His sight."

And this thing was displeasing in the sight of God, so He struck Israel.

Then David said to God, "I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now, please take away the iniquity of Your slave, for I have acted very foolishly."

And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it; but as he was about to destroy it, Yahweh saw and relented concerning the calamity, and said to the destroying angel, "It is enough! Now relax your hand." And the angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

And David said to God, "Is it not I who commanded to number the people? Indeed, I am the one who has sinned and done a great evil; but these sheep, what have they done? O Yahweh my God, please let Your hand be against me and my father's household, but not against Your people that they should be plagued."

But David could not go before it to inquire of God, for he was terrified by the sword of the angel of Yahweh.

Then David said, "This is the house of Yahweh God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel."

So David said to gather the sojourners who were in the land of Israel, and he appointed stonecutters to hew out stones to build the house of God.

Then he called for his son Solomon, and commanded him to build a house for Yahweh, the God of Israel.

And David said to Solomon, "My son, I had it within my heart to build a house to the name of Yahweh my God.

Now, my son, Yahweh be with you that you may be successful, and build the house of Yahweh your God just as He has spoken concerning you.

Only Yahweh give you insight and understanding, and give you command over Israel, so that you may keep the law of Yahweh your God.

"Is not Yahweh your God with you? And has He not given you rest on every side? For He has given the inhabitants of the land into my hand, and the land is subdued before Yahweh and before His people.

Now give your heart and your soul to seek Yahweh your God; arise, therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of Yahweh and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for the name of Yahweh."