1 Chronicles 17:4

Bible in Basic English 1965

Go and say to David my servant, The Lord says, You are not to make me a house for my living-place:

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But you yourself will not be the builder of my house; but your son, the offspring of your body, he it is who will put up a house for my name.

But that same night, the word of God came to Nathan, saying,