2Then King David rose to his feet and said, “Listen to me, my brothers and my people. It was in my heart to build a house as a resting place for the ark of the covenant of the LORD and as a footstool for our God. I had made preparations to build it,
3but God said to me, ‘You are not to build a house for My Name, because you are a man of war who has spilled blood.’
— 1 Chronicles 28:2-3