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Solomon Blesses the LORD

2 Chronicles 6:9

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
Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.
WEB
nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who will 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
but you do not build the house, for your son who comes forth out from your loins, he builds the house for My Name.
YLT
but thou dost not build the house, for thy son who cometh forth 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
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.
GNV
Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house, but thy sonne which shall come out of thy loynes, he shall buylde an 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; for thy son who shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.

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Original-language editions

WLC
רַ֣ק אַתָּ֔ה לֹ֥א תִבְנֶ֖ה הַבָּ֑יִת כִּ֤י בִנְךָ֙ הַיּוֹצֵ֣א מֵֽחֲלָצֶ֔יךָ הֽוּא־יִבְנֶ֥ה הַבַּ֖יִת לִשְׁמִֽי׃
LXX-Br
Πλὴν σὺ οὐκ οἰκοδομήσεις τὸν οἶκον, ὅτι ὁ υἱός σου ὃς ἐξελεύσεται ἐκ τῆς ὀσφύος σου, οὗτος οἰκοδομήσει τὸν οἶκον τῷ ὀνόματί μου.

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From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • 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 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.

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