1 Chronicles 22:1
Good News Translation
So David said, "This is where the Temple of the LORD God will be. Here is the altar where the people of Israel are to offer burnt offerings."

New Revised Standard Version
Then David said, “Here shall be the house of the Lord God and here the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”

Contemporary English Version
David said, "The temple of the LORD God must be built right here at this threshing place. And the altar for offering sacrifices will also be here."

New American Bible
Thus David said, “This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar for burnt offerings for Israel.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then David said: This is the house of God, And this is the altar for the holocaust of Israel.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then David said: This is the house of God, And this is the altar for the holocaust of Israel.

This is the house.

1 Chronicles 21:18-28 And the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to tell David, to go up, and build an altar to the Lord God in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. . . .

Genesis 28:17 And trembling, he said: How terrible is this place? this is no other but the house of God, and the gate of heaven.

Deuteronomy 12:5-7,11 But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in it: . . .

2 Samuel 24:18 And Gad came to David that day, and said: Go up, and build an altar to the Lord in the thrashingfloor of Areuna the Jebusite.

2 Chronicles 3:1 And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, in mount Moria, which had been shewn to David his father, in the place which David had prepared in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

2 Chronicles 6:5,6 From the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel, for a house to be built in it to my name: neither chose I any other man, to be the ruler of my people Israel. . . .

Psalm 78:60,67-69 And he put away the tabernacle of Silo, his tabernacle where he dwelt among men. . . .

Psalm 132:13,14 For the Lord hath chosen Sion: he hath chosen it for his dwelling. . . .

John 4:20-22 Our fathers adored on this mountain: and you say that at Jerusalem is the place where men must adore. . . .

and this is the altar

2 Kings 18:22 But if you say to me: We trust in the Lord, our God: is it not he, whose high places and altars Ezechias hath taken away: and hath commanded Juda and Jerusalem: You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

2 Chronicles 32:12 Is it not this same Ezechias, that hath destroyed his high places, and his altars, and commanded Juda and Jerusalem, saying: You shall worship before one altar, and upon it you shall burn incense?

Context
Preparations for the Temple
1Then David said: This is the house of God, And this is the altar for the holocaust of Israel.2And he commanded to gather together all the proselytes of the land of Israel, and out of them he appointed stonecutters to hew stones and polish them, to build the house of God.…
Cross References
1 Chronicles 21:18
And the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to tell David, to go up, and build an altar to the Lord God in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 21:30
And David could not go to the altar there to pray to God: for he was seized with an exceeding great fear, seeing the sword of the angel of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 3:1
And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, in mount Moria, which had been shewn to David his father, in the place which David had prepared in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 21:30
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