1 Kings 8:18

Bible in Basic English 1965

But the Lord said to David my father, You did well to have in your heart the desire to make a house for my name;

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And Nathan said to the king, Go and do whatever is in your heart; for the Lord is with you.

Now it was in the heart of David my father to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

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.

For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.