◄ 2 Chronicles 6:9 ►
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Good News Translation
but you will never build it. It is your son, your own son, who will build my temple.'

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

Contemporary English Version
But you're not the one to do it. Your son will build the temple to honor me."

New American Bible
But it is not you who will build the house, but your son, who comes from your loins: he shall build the house for my name.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But thou shalt not build the house, but thy son, who shall come out of thy loins, he shall build a house to my name.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But thou shalt not build the house, but thy son, who shall come out of thy loins, he shall build a house to my name.

thy son

2 Samuel 7:12,13 And when thy days shall be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of the bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. . . .

1 Chronicles 17:4,11,12 Go, and speak to David my servant: Thus saith the Lord: Thou shalt not build me a house to dwell in. . . .

Context
Solomon Praises the LORD
…8The Lord said to him: Forasmuch as it was thy will to build a house to my name, thou hast done well indeed in having such a will: 9But thou shalt not build the house, but thy son, who shall come out of thy loins, he shall build a house to my name.10The Lord therefore hath accomplished his word which he spoke: and I am risen up in the place of David my father, and sit upon the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised: and have built a house to the name of the Lord God of Israel.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 6:8
The Lord said to him: Forasmuch as it was thy will to build a house to my name, thou hast done well indeed in having such a will:

2 Chronicles 6:10
The Lord therefore hath accomplished his word which he spoke: and I am risen up in the place of David my father, and sit upon the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised: and have built a house to the name of the Lord God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 6:8
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