1 Kings 8:18-21

8:18 The Lord told my father David, ‘It is right for you to have a strong desire to build a temple to honor me. ¹  8:19 But you will not build the temple; your very own son will build the temple for my honor.’ ²  8:20 The Lord has kept the promise he made. ³  I have taken my father David’s place and have occupied the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised. I have built this temple for the honor ⁴  of the Lord God of Israel 8:21 and set up in it a place for the ark containing the covenant the Lord made with our ancestors ⁵  when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”

¹ tn Heb “Because it was with your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was with your heart.”

² tn Heb “your son, the one who came out of your body, he will build the temple for my name.”

³ tn Heb “his word that he spoke.”

⁴ tn Heb “name.”

⁵ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 34, 40, 48, 53, 57, 58).