| I Chronicles 28:2
| 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 I prepared all things for the building.
| Rising up from his bed, on which he lay, on account of his great age and weakness, while he addressed himself to his son; (3 Kings 1:47.; Calmet) or he rose from his throne, to honor this grand assembly. Hebrew, "stood upon his feet." (Haydock) --- Thought. Hebrew, "I, with my heart, thought to," etc. (Calmet) --- And, or which is the footstool. (Haydock) --- The ark is often so called, because God was considered as sitting upon the wings of the cherubim, over it, Psalm 98:1., etc. --- Building. No doubt what David left would have been sufficient. Yet Solomon thought that he could make something still more magnificent.
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