2 Chronicles 6:9

New American Bible - revised edition

But it is not you who will build the house, but your son, who comes from your loins: he shall build the house for my name.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 17:4

Go and tell David my servant, Thus says the Lord: It is not you who are to build the house for me to dwell in.

1 Chronicles 28:3

But God said to me, You may not build a house for my name, for you are a man who waged wars and shed blood.

2 Chronicles 6:10

“Now the Lord has fulfilled the word he spoke. I have succeeded David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord has said, and I have built this house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 6:8

the Lord said to him: In wishing to build a house for my name, you did well.