¹⁸ But the Lord said to David my father, You did well to have in your heart the desire to make a house for my name;

⁷ Now it was in the heart of my father David to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

⁸ But the Lord said to David my father, You did well to have in your heart the desire to make a house for my name:

⁹ 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.

¹² For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.