1 Chronicles 17:4
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4 “Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord: (A)It is not you who will build me a house to dwell in.
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1 Chronicles 28:2-3
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2 Then King David rose to his feet and said: “Hear me, my brothers and my people. (A)I had it in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord and for the (B)footstool of our God, and I made preparations for building. 3 But God said to me, (C)‘You may not build a house for my name, for you are a man of war and have shed blood.’
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Romans 11:33-34
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33 Oh, the depth of the riches and (A)wisdom and knowledge of God! (B)How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
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Isaiah 55:8-9
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8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
9 (A)For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
2 Chronicles 6:8-9
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8 But the Lord said to David my father, ‘Whereas (A)it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart. 9 Nevertheless, it is not you who shall build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.’
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1 Chronicles 22:7-8
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7 David said to Solomon, “My son, (A)I had it in my heart to build a house to the name of the Lord my God. 8 But the word of the Lord came to me, saying, (B)‘You have shed much blood and have waged great wars. You shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed so much blood before me on the earth.
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1 Kings 8:19
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19 (A)Nevertheless, you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.’
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2 Samuel 7:4-5
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4 But that same night the word of the Lord came to Nathan, 5 “Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord: (A)Would you build me a house to dwell in?
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