1 Chronicles 28:6
Good News Translation
"The LORD said to me, 'Your son Solomon is the one who will build my Temple. I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.

New Revised Standard Version
He said to me, ‘It is your son Solomon who shall build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him to be a son to me, and I will be a father to him.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD said to me, "Your son Solomon will build my temple, and it will honor me. Solomon will be like a son to me, and I will be like a father to him.

New American Bible
For he said to me: It is your son Solomon who shall build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him for my son, and I will be a father to him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to me: Solomon thy son shall build my house, and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be a father to him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he said to me: Solomon thy son shall build my house, and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be a father to him.

he shall

1 Chronicles 17:11-14 And when thou shalt have ended thy days to go to thy fathers, I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons: and I will establish his kingdom. . . .

1 Chronicles 22:9,10 The son, that shall be born to thee, shall be a most quiet man: for I will make him rest from all his enemies round about: and therefore he shall be called Peaceable: and I will give peace and quietness to Israel all his days. . . .

2 Samuel 7:13,14 He shall build a house to my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom fore ever. . . .

2 Chronicles 1:9 Now therefore, O Lord God, let thy word be fulfilled, which thou hast promised to David my father: for thou hast made me king over thy great people, which is as innumerable as the dust of the earth.

Zechariah 6:12,13 And thou shalt speak to him, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: BEHOLD A MAN, THE ORIENT IS HIS NAME: and under him shall he spring up, and shall build a temple to the Lord. . . .

Hebrews 3:3,6 For this man was counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, by so much as he that hath built the house hath greater honour than the house. . . .

I have

Hebrews 4:5 And in this place again: If they shall enter into my rest.

Context
David Commissions Solomon
5And among my sons (for the Lord hath given me many sons) he hath chosen Solomon my son, to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel. 6And he said to me: Solomon thy son shall build my house, and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be a father to him.7And I will establish his kingdom for ever, it he continue to keep my commandments, and my judgments, as at this day.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:13
He shall build a house to my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom fore ever.

2 Samuel 7:14
I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son: and if he commit any iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men.

1 Kings 5:5
Wherefore I purpose to build a temple to the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord spoke to David my father, saying: Thy son, whom I will set upon the throne, in thy place, he shall build a house to my name.

1 Kings 8:20
The Lord hath performed his word which he spoke. And I stand in the room of David, my father, and sit upon the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised: and have built a house to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

Ezekiel 40:14
He made also fronts of sixty cubits: and to the front the court of the gate on every side round about.

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