2 Chronicles 6:5-7

Revised Standard Version

⁵ ‘Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city in all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there, and I chose no man as prince over my people Israel; ⁶ but I have chosen Jerusalem that my name may be there and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’ ⁷ Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.