“Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the Lord his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.”
"'You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of the LORD his God because of the warfare with which his enemies surrounded him, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.'" — Solomon explains David's inability to build the temple: *attah yada'ta et-David avi*, he could not build because of continuous warfare (*milchamot*). The phrase *'ad asher natan YHVH otham tachat kaph raglav* (until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet) invokes the *military peace* (pax Davidica) that enabled his reign. The building of the temple, by contrast, requires *peace*, which Solomon now possesses.
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