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).