“Go and tell David My servant, ‘Thus says the Lord, “You shall not build a house for Me to dwell in;

Then King David rose to his feet and said, “Listen to me, my brethren and my people; I had intended to build a permanent home for the ark of the covenant of the Lord and for the footstool of our God. So I had made preparations to build it.

But in the same night the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying,

Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who will be born to you, he will build the house for My name.’

David said to Solomon, “My son, I had intended to build a house to the name of the Lord my God.

But the Lord said to my father David, ‘Because it was in your heart to build a house for My name, you did well that it was in your heart.

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.

Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!

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Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:

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Tell

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.
Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!

Thou shalt not

David said to Solomon, “My son, I had intended to build a house to the name of the Lord my God.
Then King David rose to his feet and said, “Listen to me, my brethren and my people; I had intended to build a permanent home for the ark of the covenant of the Lord and for the footstool of our God. So I had made preparations to build it.
But in the same night the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying,
Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who will be born to you, he will build the house for My name.’
But the Lord said to my father David, ‘Because 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 will be born to you, he will build the house for My name.’
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