1 Kings 5:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ And I purpose to build a house to the Name of the Lord my God, as the Lord said to David my father, Your son whom I will set on your throne in your place shall build the house to My Name and Presence.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ And, behold, I purpose to build a house for the name of Jehovah my God, as Jehovah spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build the house for my name.

Common English Bible

⁵ So I’m planning to build a temple for the name of the LORD my God, just as the LORD indicated to my father David, ‘I will give you a son to follow you on your throne. He will build the temple for my name.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ For this reason, I intend to build a temple to the name of the Lord my God, just as the Lord spoke to my father David, saying: 'Your son, whom I will set in your place, upon your throne, he himself shall build a house to my name.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Wherefore I purpose to build a temple to the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord spoke to David my father, saying: Thy son, whom I will set upon the throne in thy place, he shall build a house to my name.

1 Kings 5:5 Cross References

1 Kings 8:19

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

2 Kings 18:31

Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: Make your peace with me and come out to me; then every one of you will eat from your own vine and your own fig tree and drink water from your own cistern,

1 Chronicles 17:12

He shall build a house for me, and I will establish his throne forever.

1 Chronicles 22:10

He shall build a house for my name. He shall be a son to me, and I will be a father to him, and I will establish his royal throne in Israel forever.’

1 Chronicles 28:10

Take heed, now, for the Lord has chosen you to build a house as the sanctuary; be strong, and act.”

1 Chronicles 28:6

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.

Leviticus 25:18

“You shall observe my statutes and faithfully keep my ordinances, so that you may live on the land securely.

Leviticus 25:19

The land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live on it securely.

Micah 4:4

but they shall all sit under their own vines and under their own fig trees, and no one shall make them afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.

Zechariah 3:10

On that day, says the Lord of hosts, you shall invite each other to come under your vine and fig tree.”

Deuteronomy 33:28

So Israel lives in safety, untroubled is Jacob’s abode in a land of grain and wine, where the heavens drop down dew.

Judges 20:1

Then all the Israelites came out, from Dan to Beer-sheba, including the land of Gilead, and the congregation assembled in one body before the Lord at Mizpah.