1 Kings 8:18

New King James Version

But the Lord said to my father David, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a temple for My name, you did well that it was in your heart.

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For if there is first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what one has, and not according to what he does not have.

Then Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart, for the Lord is with you.”

Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a temple for the name of the Lord God of Israel.

Nevertheless you shall not build the temple, but your son who will come from your body, he shall build the temple for My name.’