1 Chronicles 28:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ He said to me, ‘It is your son Solomon who shall build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him to be a son to me, and I will be a father to him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ And he said unto me, Solomon thy son, he shall build my house and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ And He said to me, Solomon your son shall build My house and My courts, for I have chosen him to be My son, and I will be his father.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And he said unto me, Solomon thy son, he shall build my house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.

Common English Bible

⁶ He said to me: Your son Solomon will build my temple and my courtyards, for I’ve chosen him to become my son even as I myself will become his father.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And he said to me: 'Solomon your son shall build my house and my courts. For I have chosen him to be to me as a son, and I will be to him as a father.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ And he said to me: Solomon thy son shall build my house and my courts. For I have chosen him to be my son: and I will be a father to him.

1 Chronicles 28:6 Cross References

1 Kings 5:5

So I intend to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord said to my father David, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, shall build the house for my name.’

1 Kings 8:20

Now the Lord has fulfilled the promise that he made, for I have risen in the place of my father David; I 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 1:9

O Lord God, let your promise to my father David now be fulfilled, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.

Ezekiel 40:14

He measured the vestibule (sixty cubits) and the gate next to the post on every side of the court.

Hebrews 3:3

Yet Jesus is worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself.

Hebrews 3:6

Christ, however, was faithful over God’s house as a son, and we are his house if we hold firm the boldness and the pride inspired by hope.

Hebrews 4:5

And again in this place it says, “They shall not enter my rest.”