2 Chronicles 6:9

Modern English Version

only you will not be the one to build the house. For your son, who will be born to you, he will build a house for My name.’

Cross References

1 Chronicles 17:4

Go and tell David My servant: Thus says the Lord: You will not build a house for Me to dwell in,

1 Chronicles 28:3

But God said to me, ‘You shall not build a house for My name because you are a man of war and have spilled much blood.’

2 Chronicles 6:10

“The Lord has fulfilled the word that He spoke. For I have risen up in the place of David my father and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord spoke, and I will build the house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 6:8

But the Lord said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for My name, you did well because of what was in your heart;