“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)

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19 Yet you are not the one to build it;
instead, your son, your own offspring,
will build it for my name.”(A)

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but the word of the Lord came to me: ‘You have shed much blood and waged great wars. You are not to build a house for my name because you have shed so much blood on the ground before me.(A)

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but God said to me, ‘You are not to build a house for my name because you are a man of war and have shed blood.’(A)

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