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2 Chronicles 6:9

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Nevertheless, you are not the one to build it; but your son, your own offspring, will build the house for My Name.’

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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.

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This verse in 2 Chronicles 6

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Now here he prays the consecration-prayer, by which it was made a figure of Christ, the great Mediator, through whom we are to offer all our prayers, and to expect all God's favours, and to whom we are to have an eye in every thing where we have to do with God.

This site's exposition

Now it was in the heart of my father David

on 2 Chronicles 6:7-9

David's wish to build and the answer that his son would build instead repeat 1 Kings 8:17-19 closely. Chronicles has already told the exchange at 1 Chronicles 17:1-4 and 22:7-10. So Solomon here quotes his father's commission: “your son, your own offspring, will build the house for My Name”.

This site's exposition

your own offspring

Your own offspring names Solomon, who reports the fulfillment in verse 10. Henry holds the consecration made the house a figure of Christ, the Mediator, through whom all prayer is offered and every favour of God expected. The son built what the father desired.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

He makes a solemn prayer to God that he would please graciously to accept and answer all the prayers that should be made in, or towards, that house,

The words behind it

13 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • רַ֣קonly

    rakH7535 →109 times

  • אַתָּ֔הyou

    ʾatahH859 →1094 times

  • לֹ֥אnot

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • תִבְנֶ֖הyou will build

    tivnehH1129 →376 times

  • הַבָּ֑יִתthe house

    habayitH1004 →2046 times

  • כִּ֤יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • בִנְךָ֙son your

    vinkhaH1121 →4930 times

  • הַיּוֹצֵ֣אwho comes out

    haiyotze'H3318 →1067 times

  • מֵֽחֲלָצֶ֔יךָfrom loins your

    mechalatzeikhaH2504 →

  • הֽוּא־he

    hu'-H1931 →1879 times

  • יִבְנֶ֥הhe will build

    yivnehH1129 →376 times

  • הַבַּ֖יִתthe house

    habayitH1004 →2046 times

  • לִשְׁמִֽי׃for name my

    lishmiH8034 →864 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 17:4

    “Go and tell My servant David that this is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build Me a house in which to dwell.

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 28:2–3

      Then King David rose to his feet and said, “Listen to me, my brothers and my people. It was in my heart to build a house as a resting place for the ark of…

    • 1 Kings 8:19

      Nevertheless, you are not the one to build it; but your son, your own offspring, will build the house for My Name.’

    • 2 Samuel 7:4–5

      But that night the word of the LORD came to Nathan, saying,

    • Isaiah 55:8–9

      “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.

    • 2 Chronicles 6:8–9

      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.

About 2 Chronicles

Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
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