1 Kings 8:19

Bible in Basic English 1965

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.

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:5

Go and say to my servant David, The Lord says, Are you to be the builder of a house, a living-place for me?

1 Kings 8:18

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;

1 Chronicles 17:4

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

1 Chronicles 28:6

And he said to me, Solomon your son will be the builder of my house and the open spaces round it; for I have taken him to be my son, and I will be his father.