1 Chronicles 28:3-5

Complete Jewish Bible

³ But God said to me, ‘You are not to build a house for my name, because you are a man of war, you have shed blood.’ ⁴ However, Adonai the God of Isra’el chose me out of my father’s whole family to be king over Isra’el forever; for he chose Y’hudah to be the leader; and in the house of Y’hudah, in the house of my father, and among the sons of my father, it was his pleasure to make me king over all Isra’el; ⁵ and of all my sons — for Adonai has given me many sons — he has chosen Shlomo my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of Adonai over Isra’el.