2 Chronicles 6:8 BSB

2 Chronicles 6:8

But the LORD said to my father David, ‘Since it was in your heart to build a house for My Name, you have done well to have this in your heart.

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ASV

But Jehovah said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thy heart to build a house for my name, thou didst well that it was in thy heart:

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:

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
יְהוָה֙	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
דָּוִ֣יד	da.Vid	David	H1732 →
אָבִ֔י	'a.Vi	father my	H1 →
יַ֗עַן	Ya.'an	because	H3282 →
אֲשֶׁ֤ר	'a.Sher	that	H834 →
הָיָה֙	ha.Yah	it was	H1961 →
עִם־	'im-	with	H5973 →
לְבָ֣בְךָ֔	le.Va.ve.kha	heart your	H3824 →
לִבְנ֥וֹת	liv.Not	to build	H1129 →
בַּ֖יִת	Ba.yit	a house	H1004 →
לִשְׁמִ֑י	lish.Mi	for name my	H8034 →
הֱֽטִיב֔וֹתָ	heti.Vo.ta	you did well	H2895 →
כִּ֥י	ki	for	H3588 →
הָיָ֖ה	ha.Yah	it was	H1961 →
עִם־	'im-	with	H5973 →
לְבָבֶֽךָ׃	le.va.Ve.kha	heart your	H3824 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Corinthians 8:12
For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.
leads to
- Mark 12:42–44
  Then one poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amounted to a small fraction of a denarius.
- Luke 21:1–4
  Then Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury,
- 2 Corinthians 9:7
  Each one should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not out of regret or compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver.
- Exodus 35:29
  So all the men and women of the Israelites whose hearts prompted them brought a freewill offering to the LORD for all the work that the LORD through Moses had commanded them to do.
- Exodus 35:21–22
  And everyone whose heart stirred him and whose spirit prompted him came and brought an offering to the LORD for the work on the Tent of Meeting, for all its services, and for the…
Through
Mark 14:8
She has done what she could to anoint My body in advance of My burial.
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 8:12
  For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.
- John 12:7
  “Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “She has kept this perfume in preparation for the day of My burial.
- 2 Corinthians 8:1–3
  Now, brothers, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the churches of Macedonia.