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Solomon Blesses the LORD

1 Kings 8:19

In 11 translations

BSB
Nevertheless, you are not the one to build it; but your son, your own offspring, will build the house for My Name.’
KJV
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.
WEB
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.’
ASV
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.
LSV
only, you do not build the house, but your son who is coming out from your loins, he builds the house for My Name.
YLT
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.
DBY
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.
DRC
Nevertheless thou shalt not build me a house, but thy son, that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build a house to my name.
GNV
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.
JPS
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.
LXXE
Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house, but thy son that has proceeded out of thy bowels, he shall build the house to my name.Gr. sides.

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Original-language editions

WLC
רַ֣ק אַתָּ֔ה לֹ֥א תִבְנֶ֖ה הַבָּ֑יִת כִּ֤י אִם־בִּנְךָ֙ הַיֹּצֵ֣א מֵחֲלָצֶ֔יךָ הֽוּא־יִבְנֶ֥ה הַבַּ֖יִת לִשְׁמִֽי׃
LXX-Br
Πλὴν σὺ οὐκ οἰκοδομήσεις τὸν οἶκον, ἀλλʼ ἢ ὁ υἱός σου ὁ ἐξελθὼν ἐκ τῶν πλευρῶν σου, οὗτος οἰκοδομήσει τὸν οἶκον τῷ ὀνόματί μου.

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◆ Reign of Solomon

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 2 Samuel 7:5“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 22:8–10but 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. But a son will be born to you…
  • 2 Samuel 7:12–13And 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. He will build a house for My Name, and I…
  • 1 Chronicles 17:11–12And when your days are fulfilled and you go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom. He will build a house for Me, and I will establish…
  • 1 Chronicles 28:6And 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 Chronicles 17:4“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.
  • 1 Kings 5:3–5“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. But now the LORD my God…

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