2 Chronicles 6:9

Bible in Basic English 1965

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

Cross References

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 28:3

But God said to me, You are not to be the builder of a house for my name, because you are a man of war and have taken life;

2 Chronicles 6:10

And the Lord has kept his word; for I have taken my father David's place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel, as the Lord gave his word; and I have made the house for the name of the Lord the God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 6:8

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: