19 (A)Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who [a]will be born to you, he will build the house for My name.’ 20 Now the Lord has fulfilled His word which He spoke; for (B)I have risen in place of my father David and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord [b]promised, and have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. 21 There I have set a place for the ark, (C)in which is the covenant of the Lord, which He made with our fathers when He brought them from the land of Egypt.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 8:19 Lit will come forth from your loins
  2. 1 Kings 8:20 Lit spoke