Charles Spurgeon Commentary 1 Chronicles 22:1

"Then David said, This is the house of Jehovah God, and this is the altar of burnt-offering for Israel." — 1 Chronicles 22:1 (ASV)

The place where God had answered him, where the angel had appeared to him, where the fire had come down from heaven, he felt to be holiest, and that the Lord had directed him to it as the spot where his temple was to be built.

It is very significant that it should be upon a threshing-floor, for surely the Church of God is God's threshing-floor, where he gathers his sheaves together and separates the wheat from the chaff. "I will winnow," he says, "my threshing-floor."

Oh! that we might always recognize that Christ is the temple of God, and Christ is the sacrifice; Christ is the appearance of God that is better to us than the appearance of angels, and Christ is God's answer to us by fire, and where Christ is, there is the burnt-offering.

Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.

From that moment, this place was set apart as the site of the future temple, and the center of the hopes of the people of God, and, dear friend, what better site could have been selected than the spot where the angel sheathed his sword, where prayer was heard, and where sacrifice was accepted? And now, today, you and I have only one temple, and that temple is the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Well-beloved, for in him the sword is sheathed, in him the sacrifice is accepted, and in him intercession still prevails.

Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.

Now he knew where the temple was to be built; and certainly he had discovered that long-predestined site of which God said, Here will I dwell. This was the very hill where Abraham offered up his son Isaac; a hill, therefore, most sacred by covenant to the living God. He delighted to remember the believing obedience of his servant Abraham, and there he would have his temple built.