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1 Kings 8:18
But the Lord said to David my father, You did well to have in your heart the desire to make a house for my name;

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1 Kings 8:19
But you yourself will not be the builder of my house; but your son, the offspring of your body, he it is who will put up a house for my name.

2 Chronicles 6:8
But the Lord said to David my father, You did well to have in your heart the desire to make a house for my name:

1 Chronicles 22:7
And David said to Solomon, My son, it was my desire to put up a house for the name of the Lord my God.

1 Chronicles 22:8
But the word of the Lord came to me saying, You have taken lives without number and made great wars; I will not let you be the builder of a house for my name, because of the lives you have taken on the earth before my eyes.

2 Corinthians 8:12
For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.

1 Chronicles 28:2
Then David the king got up and said, Give ear to me, my brothers and my people; it was my desire to put up a house, a resting-place for the ark of the Lord's agreement, and for the foot-rest of our God; and I had got material ready for the building of it.

1 Chronicles 28:3
But God said to me, You are not to be the builder of a house for my name, because you are a man of war and have taken life;

2 Samuel 7:13
He will be the builder of a house for my name, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever.

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2 Samuel 7:1
Now when the king was living in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from war on every side;

2 Samuel 7:2
The king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is housed inside the curtains of a tent.

2 Samuel 7:3
And Nathan said to the king, Go and do whatever is in your heart; for the Lord is with you.

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