This is the house: David perhaps had some assurance that this was the place on which God designed that His house should be built; and perhaps it was this that induced him to buy not only the threshing-floor, but probably some adjacent ground also, as Calmet supposes, that there might be sufficient room for such a structure. 1Ch 21:18-28, Gen 28:17, Deu 12:5-7, Deu 12:11, 2Sa 24:18, 2Ch 3:1, 2Ch 6:5, 2Ch 6:6, Psa 78:60, Psa 78:67-69, Psa 132:13, Psa 132:14, Joh 4:20-22 and this is the altar: 2Ki 18:22, 2Ch 32:12 Reciprocal: Gen 46:11 - Levi 2Sa 24:24 - So David 1Ch 3:11 - Ahaziah 2Ch 11:16 - to sacrifice Ezr 2:68 - in his place Zec 9:7 - a Jebusite Mat 25:16 - went Act 13:36 - served