2 Chronicles 6:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

nevertheless, you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Yet you shall not build the house, but your son, who shall be born to you–he shall build the house for My Name.

American Standard Version (1901)

nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.

Common English Bible

you yourself won’t build that temple. Instead, your very own son will build the temple for my name.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

But you shall not build the house. Truly, your son, who will go forth from your loins, shall build a house to my name.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But thou shalt not build the house: but thy son, who shall come out of thy loins, he shall build a house to my name.

2 Chronicles 6:9 Cross References

1 Chronicles 17:4

“Go and tell my servant David: Thus says the Lord: You shall not build me a house to live in.

1 Chronicles 28:3

But God said to me, ‘You shall not build a house for my name, for you are a warrior and have shed blood.’

2 Chronicles 6:10

Now the Lord has fulfilled his promise that he made, for I have succeeded my father David and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 6:8

But the Lord said to my father David, ‘You did well to consider building a house for my name;