1 Kings 8:19

19 However, you will not build the house, but your son who has come from your loins, he shall build the house for my name.'

1 Kings 8:19 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 8:19

Nevertheless, thou shall not build the house
Which is implied in the question in ( 2 Samuel 7:5 )

but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build
the house unto my name;
which is expressed in ( 2 Samuel 7:12-13 ) .

1 Kings 8:19 In-Context

17 {David my father desired} to build a house for the name of Yahweh the God of Israel,

18 but Yahweh said to David my father, 'Because {you desired} to build a house for my name, you did well in that it was within your heart.

19 However, you will not build the house, but your son who has come from your loins, he shall build the house for my name.'

20 Yahweh has carried out his promise which he had made; I have risen in place of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel as Yahweh promised, and I have built the house for the name of Yahweh the God of Israel.

21 I have provided a place there for the ark, in which is the covenant which Yahweh made with our ancestors when He brought them out of the land of Egypt."