1 Kings 8:18

New English Translation

The Lord told my father David, ‘It is right for you to have a strong desire to build a temple to honor me.

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Nathan replied to the king, “You should go and do whatever you have in mind, for the Lord is with you.”

Now my father David had a strong desire to build a temple to honor the Lord God of Israel.

But you will not build the temple; your very own son will build the temple for my honor.’

For if the eagerness is present, the gift itself is acceptable according to whatever one has, not according to what he does not have.