2 Chronicles 6:9

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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 dwell in.

1 Chronicles 28:3

But God said to me, ‘You may 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 which he made; for I have risen in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and I have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 6:8

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