1 Kings 5:2-5
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2 Solomon sent this message to Hiram: 3 “You know my father David was not able to build a temple for the name of the Lord his God. This was because of the warfare all around him until the Lord put his enemies under his feet.(A) 4 The Lord my God has now given me rest on every side; there is no enemy or misfortune.(B) 5 So I plan to build a temple for the name of the Lord my God,(C) according to what the Lord promised my father David: ‘I will put your son on your throne in your place, and he will build the temple for my name.’(D)
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1 Kings 6:12
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12 “As for this temple you are building—if you walk in my statutes, observe my ordinances, and keep all my commands by walking in them,(A) I will fulfill my promise to you, which I made to your father David.(B)
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1 Kings 8:18-19
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18 But the Lord said to my father David,
“Since your heart was set on building a temple for my name,
you have done well to have this desire.[a](A)
19 Yet you are not the one to build it;
instead, your son, your own offspring,
will build it for my name.”(B)
Footnotes
- 8:18 Lit well because it was with your heart
Acts 7:47
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47 It was Solomon, rather, who built him a house,(A)
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