1 Kings 8:19
Nevertheless, you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.’
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- 2 Samuel 7:5 “Go and tell my servant David, ‘Yahweh says, “Should you build me a house for me to dwell in?
- 1 Chronicles 22:8–10 But Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, ‘You have shed blood abundantly and have made great wars. You shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight. Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of peace. I will give him rest from all his enemies all around; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days. He shall build a house for my name; and he will be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.’
- 2 Samuel 7:12–13 When your days are fulfilled and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.