New Revised Standard Version
Then King David rose to his feet and said: “Hear me, my brothers and my people. I had planned to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, for the footstool of our God; and I made preparations for building.

Contemporary English Version
After everyone was there, David stood up and said: Listen to me, my people. I wanted to build a place where the sacred chest would be kept, so we could go there and worship the LORD our God. I have prepared all the supplies for building a temple,

New American Bible
King David rose to his feet and said: “Hear me, my kinsmen and my people. It was my purpose to build a house of repose myself for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, the footstool for the feet of our God; and I was preparing to build it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the king rising up, and standing said: Hear me, my brethren and my people: I had a thought to have built a house, in which the ark of the Lord, and the footstool of our God might rest: and prepared all things for the building.

And the king rising up, and standing said: Hear me, my brethren and my people: I had a thought to have built a house, in which the ark of the Lord, and the footstool of our God might rest: and prepared all things for the building.

Stood up

Genesis 48:2 And it was told the old man: Behold thy son Joseph cometh to thee. And being strengthened, he sat on his bed.

1 Kings 1:47 And the king's servants going in, have blessed our lord king David, saying: May God make the name of Solomon greater than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne. And the king adored in his bed:

my brethren

1 Chronicles 11:1-3 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David in Hebron, saying: We are thy bone, and thy flesh. . . .

Deuteronomy 17:15,20 Thou shalt set him whom the Lord thy God shall choose out of the number of thy brethren. Thou mayst not make a man of another nation king, that is not thy brother. . . .

Psalm 22:22 I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the church will I praise thee.

Hebrews 2:11,12 For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one. For which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying: . . .

I had in mine heart

1 Chronicles 17:1,2 Now when David was dwelling in his house, he said to Nathan the prophet: Behold I dwell in a house of cedar: and the ark of the covenant of the Lord is under skins. . . .

2 Samuel 7:1,2 And it came to pass when the king sat in his house, and the Lord had given him rest on every side from all his enemies, . . .

1 Kings 8:17,18 And David, my father, would have built a house to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel: . . .

rest

1 Chronicles 6:31 These are they, whom David set over the singing men of the house of the Lord, after that the ark was placed.

Psalm 132:3-8,14 If I shall enter into the tabernacle of my house: if I shall go up into the bed wherein I lie: . . .

the footstool

Psalm 99:5 Exalt ye the Lord our God, and adore his footstool, for it is holy.

Psalm 132:7 We will go into his tabernacle: we will adore in the place where his feet stood.

Isaiah 66:1 Thus saith the Lord: Heaven is my throne, and the earth my footstool: what is this house that you will build to me? and what is this place of my rest?

Lamentations 2:1 Aleph. How hath the Lord covered with obscurity the daughter of Sion in his wrath! how hath he cast down from heaven to the earth the glorious one of Israel, and hath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

Acts 7:49 Heaven is my throne and the earth my footstool. What house will you build me (saith the Lord)? Or what is the place of my resting?

had made ready

1 Chronicles 18:7-11 And David took the golden quivers which the servants of Adarezer had, and he brought them to Jerusalem. . . .

1 Chronicles 22:2-5,14 And 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. . . .