18 But the Lord said to my father David,
“Since your heart was set on building a temple for my name,
you have done well to have this desire.[a](A)
19 Yet you are not the one to build it;
instead, your son, your own offspring,
will build it for my name.”(B)
20 The Lord has fulfilled what he promised.
I have taken the place of my father David,(C)
and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised.(D)
I have built the temple for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 8:18 Lit well because it was with your heart

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