📖WEB · 2 Chronicles 6:8
What does 2 Chronicles 6:8 mean?
"But Yahweh said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart;"
— 2 Chronicles 6:8 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
‘Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there and I chose no man to be prince over my people Israel;
but now I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’
Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
But Yahweh said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart;
nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who will come out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.’
“Yahweh has performed his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
There I have set the ark, in which is Yahweh’s covenant, which he made with the children of Israel.”
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