Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: [As for me], I [had] in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building:
Ver. 2. Then David the king stood up upon his feet.] To show his reverence to God, as Judges 3:20, and his good respect to the assembly, which was comitia totius regni, a parliament, wherein he was to be the speaker.
Hear me, my brethren, and my people.] Praemittit exordiolum - not unlike that of Augustus to his soldiers, Audite senem iuvenes, quem iuvenem senes audierunt - wisely insinuating himself into their affections.
As for me, I had in my heart.] See 1 Chronicles 17:1, &o.
And for the foot stool,] i.e., For the ark, which is called God's footstool, because under the cherubims, where God was said to sit as in a throne. See Psalms 99:5; Psalms 132:7 .