1  Furthermore David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet ^ayoung and tender, and the work is great: for the palace is not for man, but for the Lord God.

  22  I soon found, however, that my telling the story had excited a great deal of prejudice against me among professors of religion, and was the cause of great persecution, which continued to increase; and though I was an ^bobscure boy, only between fourteen and fifteen years of age, and my circumstances in life such as to make a boy of no consequence in the world, yet men of high standing would take notice sufficient to excite the public mind against me, and create a bitter persecution; and this was common among all the sects—all united to persecute me.