2-Chronicles - 6:9

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9 nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.'

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Explanation and meaning of 2-Chronicles 6:9.

Differing Translations

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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.
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.
but thou dost not build the house, for thy son who cometh forth out from thy loins, he doth build the house for My name.
But you yourself will not be the builder of the house; but your son, the offspring of your body, he it is who will put up a house for my name.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

But thy son, &c. - Thus one sows, and another reaps. And let not the wisest of men, think it any disparagement to pursue the good designs which those that went before them had laid.

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