1 Chronicles 28:3-5

Jubilee Bible 2000

³ But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build a house for my name because thou hast been a man of war and hast shed blood.

⁴ However, the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever, for he has chosen Judah to be the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all Israel;

⁵ and of all my sons (for the LORD has given me many sons) he has chosen Solomon, my son, to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.