Verse 4

"Go and tell my servant David: 'This is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build me a house to dwell in.

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  • 1 Chr 28:2-3 : 2 Then King David stood to his feet and said: “Listen to me, my brothers and my people. I had it in my heart to build a resting place for the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD and a footstool for our God, and I made preparations to build it. 3 But God said to me, ‘You shall not build a house for My name, because you are a man of war and have shed blood.’
  • 2 Chr 6:8-9 : 8 But the LORD said to my father David, 'Because it was in your heart to build a house for My name, you did well to have this desire in your heart. 9 However, you shall not build the house; instead, your son, who will come from your body, he shall build the house for My name.'
  • Isa 55:8-9 : 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.
  • Rom 11:33-34 : 33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable His judgments and His ways beyond tracing out! 34 Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?
  • 2 Sam 7:4-5 : 4 But that same night the word of the LORD came to Nathan, 5 "Go and tell my servant David, 'Thus says the LORD: Is it you who would build me a house to dwell in?
  • 1 Kgs 8:19 : 19 Nevertheless, you will not build the house yourself; rather, your son, your own descendant, will build the house for My name.
  • 1 Chr 22:7-8 : 7 David said to Solomon, 'My son, it was in my heart to build a house for the name of the Lord my God.' 8 But the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 'You have shed much blood and have fought great wars. You shall not build a house for my name, because you have shed abundant blood on the earth in my sight.'