1 Kings 8:19 “Nevertheless, you are not the one to build it; but your son, your own…”

1 Kings 8:19

Nevertheless, you are not the one to build it; but your son, your own offspring, will build the house for My Name.’

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.

World English Bible

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.’

American Standard Version

nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.

Geneva Bible 1599

Neuerthelesse thou shalt not builde the house, but thy sonne that shall come out of thy loynes, he shall builde the house vnto my Name.

Darby Translation

nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.

Young's Literal Translation

only, thou dost not build the house, but thy son who is coming out from thy loins, he doth build the house for My name.

Bible in Basic English

But you yourself will not be the builder of my house; but your son, the offspring of your body, he it is who will put up a house for my name.

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Cross references

“Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.”

2 Samuel 7:5 1 Chronicles 22:8–10 1 Chronicles 28:6 1 Kings 5:3–5 1 Chronicles 17:4 2 Samuel 7:12

2 Samuel 7:5 · BSB

“Go and tell My servant David that this is what the LORD says: Are you the one to build for Me a house to dwell in?

1 Chronicles 22:8–10 · BSB

but this word of the LORD came to me: ‘You have shed much blood and waged great wars. You are not to build a house for My Name because you have shed so much blood on the ground before Me.

1 Chronicles 28:6 · BSB

And He said to me, ‘Solomon your son is the one who will build My house and My courts, for I have chosen him as My son, and I will be his Father.

1 Kings 5:3–5 · BSB

“As you are well aware, due to the wars waged on all sides against my father David, he could not build a house for the Name of the LORD his God until the LORD had put his enemies under his feet.

1 Chronicles 17:4 · BSB

“Go and tell My servant David that this is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build Me a house in which to dwell.

2 Samuel 7:12 · BSB

And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

18But the LORD said to my father David, ‘Since it was in your heart to build a house for My Name, you have done well to have this in your heart.

20Now the LORD has fulfilled the word that He spoke. I have succeeded my father David, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised. I have built the house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

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