Solomon understood that the state of rest that the Lord had given him signalled the time was ripe for him to begin the construction of the temple. He also acknowledged that this was not merely his intention but done in accordance with the command of God given to David.
He quoted the Lord’s words to David: “Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, shall build the house for my name.” This language ought to direct our minds to the matter of the typological significance of the building of the temple, as explained in the opening comment concerning the whole of chapter 5.
As Solomon, the son of David, built a temple of wood, stone, and mortar, so Jesus Christ, David’s greater son and the Son of God, is building a temple of the church for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit
(Ephesians 2:22).
5 And so I intend to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD said to David my father, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, shall build the house for my name.’