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Literal Standard Version

2 Chronicles 6:9

but you do not build the house, for your son who comes forth out from your loins, he builds the house for My Name.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - David;   God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prayer, Public;   Temple, the First;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Sexuality, Human;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Solomon;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Yet, you are not the one to build the temple,but your son, your own offspring,will build the temple for my name.”
Hebrew Names Version
nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for my name.
King James Version
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.
English Standard Version
Nevertheless, it is not you who shall build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.'
New Century Version
But you are not the one to build it. Your son, who comes from your own body, is the one who will build my temple.'
New English Translation
But you will not build the temple; your very own son will build the temple for my honor.'
Amplified Bible
'Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who will be born to you, he shall build the house for My Name.'
New American Standard Bible
'Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who will be born to you, he shall build the house for My name.'
World English Bible
nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for my name.
Geneva Bible (1587)
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.
Legacy Standard Bible
Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who will come forth from your loins, he shall build the house for My name.'
Berean Standard Bible
Nevertheless, you are not the one to build it; but your son, your own offspring, will build the house for My Name.'
Contemporary English Version
But you're not the one to do it. Your son will build the temple to honor me."
Complete Jewish Bible
nevertheless you will not build the house. Rather, you will father a son, and it will be he who will build the house for my name.'
Darby Translation
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.
Easy-to-Read Version
but you cannot build the Temple. Your son will build the Temple for my name.'
George Lamsa Translation
Nevertheless you shall not build the house for my name, but your son who shall come forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for my name.
Good News Translation
but you will never build it. It is your son, your own son, who will build my temple.'
Lexham English Bible
but you yourself will not build the house, but your son who will proceed from your loins; he himself will build the house for my name.'
Literal Translation
But you shall not build the house, for your son who comes forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for My name.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
howbeit thou shalt not buylde the house, but thy sonne which shall come out of thy loynes, shal buylde the house vnto my name.
American Standard Version
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.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Notwithstanding, thou shalt not buyld the house: but thy sonne which is proceeded out of thy loynes, he shall buylde an house for my name.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.
King James Version (1611)
Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house, but thy sonne which shall come foorth out of thy loynes, he shall build the house for my Name.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
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.
English Revised Version
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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
hauynge suche a wil, but thou schalt not bilde an hows to me; netheles the sone, that schal go out of thi leendis, he schal bilde an hows to my name.
Update Bible Version
nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son that shall come forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for my name.
Webster's Bible Translation
Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son who shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.
New King James Version
Nevertheless you shall not build the temple, but your son who will come from your body, he shall build the temple for My name.'
New Living Translation
but you are not the one to do it. One of your own sons will build the Temple to honor me.'
New Life Bible
But you will not build the house. Your son who will be born to you will build the house for My name.'
New Revised Standard
nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.'
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Only, thou thyself, must not build the house, - but, thine own son, that proceedeth out of thy loins - he, shall build the house for my Name.
Douay-Rheims Bible
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.
Revised Standard Version
nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.'
Young's Literal Translation
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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who will be born to you, he shall build the house for My name.'

Contextual Overview

1Then Solomon said, "YHWH said [He would] dwell in thick darkness, 2and I have built a house of habitation for You, and a fixed place for Your dwelling for all ages." 3And the king turns around his face, and blesses the whole assembly of Israel, and the whole assembly of Israel is standing, 4and he says, "Blessed [is] YHWH, God of Israel, who has spoken with His mouth with my father David, and with His hands has fulfilled [it], saying, 5From the day that I brought out My people from the land of Egypt, I have not fixed on a city out of any of the tribes of Israel to build a house for my name being there, and I have not fixed on a man to be leader over My people Israel; 6and I fix on Jerusalem for My Name being there, and I fix on David to be over My people Israel. 7And it is with the heart of my father David to build a house for the Name of YHWH God of Israel, 8and YHWH says to my father David, Because that it has been with your heart to build a house for My Name, you have done well that it has been with your heart, 9but you do not build the house, for your son who comes forth out from your loins, he builds the house for My Name.10And YHWH establishes His word that He spoke, and I rise up in the stead of my father David, and sit on the throne of Israel, as YHWH spoke, and I build the house for the Name of YHWH, God of Israel,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thy son: 2 Samuel 7:12, 2 Samuel 7:13, 1 Chronicles 17:4, 1 Chronicles 17:11, 1 Chronicles 17:12

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 28:3 - Thou shalt Psalms 68:29 - Because

Cross-References

Genesis 2:4
These [are] the generations of the heavens and of the earth in their being created, in the day of YHWH God's making the earth and the heavens;
Genesis 5:1
This [is] an account of the generations of Adam. In the day of God's creating man, in the likeness of God He has made him;
Genesis 5:22
And Enoch habitually walks with God after his begetting Methuselah three hundred years [[or two hundred years]], and begets sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:24
And Enoch habitually walks with God, and he is not, for God has taken him.
Genesis 6:9
These [are] the generations of Noah: Noah [is] a righteous man; he has been perfect among his generations; Noah has habitually walked with God.
Genesis 6:15
and this [is] how you do it: three hundred cubits [is] the length of the Ark, fifty cubits its breadth, and thirty cubits its height;
Genesis 7:1
And YHWH says to Noah, "Come, you and all your house, into the Ark, for I have seen you [are] righteous before Me in this generation;
Genesis 10:1
And these [are] the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and sons are born to them after the flood.
Genesis 17:1
And Abram is a son of ninety-nine years, and YHWH appears to Abram, and says to him, "I [am] God Almighty, habitually walk before Me, and be perfect;
Genesis 48:15
And he blesses Joseph and says, "God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac habitually walked: God who is feeding me from my being to this day:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Kings (marginal references).

Compare Kings (marginal references).


 
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