2 Chronicles 6:8-9

6:8 The Lord told my father David, ‘It is right for you to have a strong desire to build a temple to honor me. ¹  6:9 But you will not build the temple; your very own son will build the temple for my honor.’ ² 

2 Chronicles 7:20

7:20 then I will remove you ³  from my land I have given you, ⁴  I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, ⁵  and I will make you ⁶  an object of mockery and ridicule ⁷  among all the nations.

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 “them.” The switch from the second to the third person pronoun is rhetorically effective, for it mirrors God’s rejection of his people – he has stopped addressing them as “you” and begun addressing them as “them.” However, the switch is awkward and confusing in English, so the translation maintains the direct address style.

⁴ tn Heb “them.” See the note on “you” earlier in this verse.

⁵ tc Instead of “I will throw away,” the parallel text in 1 Kgs 9:7 has “I will send away.” The two verbs sound very similar in Hebrew, so the discrepancy is likely due to an oral transmissional error.

⁶ tn Heb “him,” which appears in context to refer to Israel (i.e., “you” in direct address). Many translations understand the direct object of the verb “make” to be the temple (NEB, NASB, NIV, NRSV “it”).

⁷ tn Heb “and I will make him [i.e., Israel] a proverb and a taunt,” that is, a proverbial example of destruction and an object of reproach.