"But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well …" — 2 Chronicles 6:8

2 Chronicles 6:8 · KJV

“But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine heart:”

— 2 Chronicles 6:8

Verse 7

Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

Verse 9

Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.

2 Chronicles 6 — Context

But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine heart:

Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.

The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 8:12

For if there be first a willing mind, {it is} accepted according to that a man hath, {and} not according to that he hath not.

1 Kings 8:18-21

And the LORD said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart.

Mark 14:8

She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.