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Related Verses

1 Kings 5:3
“You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of the LORD his God because of the warfare with which his enemies surrounded him, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.

1 Kings 8:19
Nevertheless, you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.’

1 Chronicles 22:8
But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, ‘You have shed much blood and have waged great wars. You shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed so much blood before me on the earth.

1 Chronicles 28:3
But God said to me, ‘You may not build a house for my name, for you are a man of war and have shed blood.’

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