1 Chronicles 28:3-5
Christian Standard Bible
3 but God said to me, ‘You are not to build a house for my name because you are a man of war and have shed blood.’(A)
4 “Yet the Lord God of Israel chose me out of all my father’s family(B) to be king over Israel forever.(C) For he chose Judah as leader,(D) and from the house of Judah, my father’s family, and from my father’s sons,(E) he was pleased to make me king over all Israel. 5 And out of all my sons(F)—for the Lord has given me many sons—he has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the Lord’s kingdom over Israel.(G)
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