Take heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it.
      I. He summoned all the great men to attend him, that he might take leave of them all together, 1 Chronicles 28:1; 1 Chronicles 28:1. Thus Moses did (Deuteronomy 31:28), and Joshua, 1 Chronicles 23:2; 1 Chronicles 24:1. David would not declare the settlement of the crown but in the presence, and to the satisfaction, of those that were the representatives of the people.