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.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Kings 8:18 in context
1 Kings 8:15–21
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He said, “Blessed is the LORD, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David your father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying,
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‘Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.’
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“Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
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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.
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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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The LORD has established his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
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There I have set a place for the ark, in which is the LORD’s covenant, which he made with our fathers when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”
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