2 Chronicles 6:8

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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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.’

She did what she could. She anointed my body beforehand for burial.

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