In 1 Chronicles 22:7, David recalls his desire to build a house for God, echoing the same longing from 1 Chronicles 17:4.

1 Chronicles 22:8 directly quotes God's reason for the prohibition: David's wars and bloodshed.

1 Chronicles 28:3 restates the prohibition with the fuller reason: David is a man of war who shed blood.

1 Chronicles 28:2 shows David publicly stating his heart to build, confirming the same intention.

2 Samuel 7:4 is the parallel account where the word of the Lord comes to Nathan that night.

2 Samuel 7:5 records God's rhetorical question through Nathan: 'Would you build me a house?'

1 Kings 8:19 reaffirms the prohibition and adds that David's son will build the house.

2 Chronicles 6:8 adds that God approved David's intention even though he could not build.

2 Chronicles 6:9 repeats the prohibition and promises the son will build the house for God's name.

Romans 11:34 asks who has known the Lord's mind—God's decision to not let David build defies human expectation.

Isaiah 55:8 says God's thoughts are not our thoughts—here God's decision overrules David's plan to build.

Isaiah 55:9 expands that God's ways are higher—applies to God's surprising refusal of David's temple proposal.

1 Kings 3:2 explains that before the temple, worship at high places was common — echoing the same era when God had not yet settled into a permanent house.

Romans 11:33 praises God's unsearchable judgments—relevant to God's unexpected decision about David's house.