Misinterpretations often portray David as immediately building the temple on this site, overlooking that he merely designated it and gathered materials while Solomon constructed it; others erroneously use it to justify multiple altars or decentralized worship outside Jerusalem, contrary to the passage's role in establishing the central sanctuary as per Deuteronomy's mandates; or detach it from the contextual plague and angelic vision that sanctified the location through divine intervention.
I Chronicles 22:1
King James Version (1769)
1 Then David said, This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.
David's declaration identifies the threshing floor of Ornan as the sacred site for the house of the Lord God and the altar of burnt offerings for Israel, signifying God's chosen location in Jerusalem for centralized worship and atonement sacrifices, a divine selection confirmed by the angel's appearance that halted a plague, though David himself would prepare rather than build the temple, entrusting it to Solomon.