1 Chronicles 22:8

English Standard Version 2016

But the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ‘You have shed much blood and have waged great wars. You shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed so much blood before me on the earth.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 28:3

But God said to me, ‘You may not build a house for my name, for you are a man of war and have shed blood.’

1 Kings 5:3

“You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of the Lord his God because of the warfare with which his enemies surrounded him, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.

Numbers 31:24

You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. And afterward you may come into the camp.”

Numbers 31:20

You shall purify every garment, every article of skin, all work of goats’ hair, and every article of wood.”

1 Kings 8:19

Nevertheless, you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.’

1 Kings 1:20

And now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, to tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

1 Kings 5:17

At the king’s command they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones.