1 Chronicles 28:3-5

Evangelical Heritage Version

³ But God said to me, “You will not build a house for my name because you are a man of war, and you have shed blood.” ⁴ Yet the Lord, the God of Israel, chose me from the whole house of my father to become king over Israel forever, because he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah he chose the house of my father, and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel. ⁵ From all my sons (the Lord has given me many sons) he has chosen my son Solomon to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.