2 Chronicles 6:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

nevertheless, you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.’

Cross References

1 Chronicles 17:4

“Go and tell my servant David: Thus says the Lord: You shall not build me a house to live in.

1 Chronicles 28:3

But God said to me, ‘You shall not build a house for my name, for you are a warrior and have shed blood.’

2 Chronicles 6:10

Now the Lord has fulfilled his promise that he made, for I have succeeded my father David and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 6:8

But the Lord said to my father David, ‘You did well to consider building a house for my name;