1 Kings 8:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁹ 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

¹⁹ Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ Yet you shall not build the house, but your son, who shall be born to you, shall build it to My Name [and My actively present Person].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ 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

¹⁹ Nevertheless, you yourself won’t build that temple. Instead, your very own son will build the temple for my name.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ Yet truly, you shall not build a house for me. Instead, your son, who shall go forth from your loins, he himself shall build a house to my name.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ Nevertheless thou shalt not build me a house: but thy son, that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build a house to my name.

1 Kings 8:19 Cross References

2 Samuel 7:5

“Go and tell my servant David: Thus says the Lord: Are you the one to build me a house to live in?

1 Kings 8:18

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

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 28:6

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.