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From the day when I took my people out of the land of Egypt, no town in all the tribes of Israel has been marked out by me for the building of a house for the resting-place of my name; and I took no man to be a ruler over my people Israel;
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But now I have made selection of Jerusalem, that my name might be there, and of David, to be over my people Israel.
7
Now it was in the heart of my father David to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
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But the Lord said to David my father, You did well to have in your heart the desire to make a house for my name:
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But you yourself will not be the builder of the house; but your son, the offspring of your body, he it is who will put up a house for my name.
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