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. 1 Chronicles 21:18-28; Genesis 28:17; Deuteronomy 12:5-7, Deuteronomy 12:11; 2 Samuel 24:18; 2 Chronicles 3:1, 2 Chronicles 6:5-6; Psalms 78:60, Psalms 78:67-69, Psalms 132:13-14; John 4:20-22
and this is the altar: 2 Kings 18:22; 2 Chronicles 32:12