² Then King David rose to his feet and said, “Hear me, my brethren and my people: ^(A)I had it in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and for ^(B)the footstool of our God, and had made preparations to build it.

⁷ And He said to me, “Son of man, this is ^(A)the place of My throne and ^(B)the place of the soles of My feet, ^(C)where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. ^(D)No more shall the house of Israel defile My holy name, they nor their kings, by their ^[a]harlotry or with ^(E)the carcasses of their kings on their high places.