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1 Chronicles 17:4
Go and say to David my servant, The Lord says, You are not to make me a house for my living-place:

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

2 Samuel 7:4
Now that night the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying,

2 Samuel 7:5
Go and say to my servant David, The Lord says, Are you to be the builder of a house, a living-place for me?

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.

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;

1 Kings 5:3
You have knowledge that David my father was not able to make a house for the name of the Lord his God, because of the wars which were round him on every side, till the Lord put all those who were against him under his feet.

2 Samuel 7:8
Then say these words to my servant David, The Lord of armies says, I took you from the fields, from keeping the sheep, so that you might be a ruler over my people, over my people Israel:

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 6:9
But you yourself will not be the builder of the house; but your son, the offspring of your body, he it is who will put up a house for my name.

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2 Samuel 7:12
And when the time comes for you to go to rest with your fathers, I will put in your place your seed after you, the offspring of your body, and I will make his kingdom strong.

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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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