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The king's desire burned with intensity—'it was in my heart'—fed by solitary meditation until it 'consolidated into a settled resolve.' Yet his hands, reddened with blood from Israel's wars, were deemed unfit for the Temple's construction.
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The reason was not spiritual unworthiness but historical reality: David's hands, reddened with blood from warfare, could not rear a house of peace.
Though his wars were justifiable, even righteous in their cause, the blood upon his hands disqualified him from constructing the sanctuary of Elohim.