1 Chronicles 28:3-5

International Standard Version

³ But then God told me, ‘You will not build a temple to my name, because you are a man of war, and you have committed bloodshed.’^{[a] 4} Nevertheless, the Lord God of Israel chose me from my entire ancestral household to be king over Israel forever, since he had chosen Judah as Commander-in-Chief.^[b] In my ancestor Judah’s household, from my father’s household, and from among my father’s sons it pleased him to make me king over all of Israel.

⁵ “Now out of all of my sons (since the Lord has given me many of them), he has selected my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord, ruling^[c] over Israel.