New Revised Standard Version
But the LORD said to my father David, ‘You did well to consider building a house for my name;

Contemporary English Version
the LORD said, "It's good that you want to build a temple where I can be worshiped.

New American Bible
the LORD said to him: In wishing to build a house for my name, you did well.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord said to David, my father: Whereas, thou hast thought in thy heart to build a house to my name, thou hast done well in having this same thing in thy mind.

And the Lord said to David, my father: Whereas, thou hast thought in thy heart to build a house to my name, thou hast done well in having this same thing in thy mind.

Whereas

2 Chronicles 6:7-9 And whereas David my father had a mind to build a house to the name of the Lord the God of Israel, . . .

2 Corinthians 8:12 For if the will be forward, it is accepted according to that which a man hath: not according to that which he hath not.