NASB
""But God said to me, 'You shall not build a house for My name because you are a man of war and have shed blood.'"
— 1 Chronicles 28:3, NASB
“But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war, and hast shed blood.”
“But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build a house for my name, because thou art a man of war, and hast shed blood. ”
“But God said to me, 'You shall not build a house for my name, because you are a man of war, and have shed blood.'”
“But God said to me,‘You must not build a temple to honor me, for you are a warrior and have spilled blood.’”
“And God said to me: Thou shalt not build a house to my name: because thou art a man of war, and hast shed blood.”
“But God said to me, You are not to be the builder of a house for my name, because you are a man of war and have taken life;”
“But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war, and hast shed blood.”
Now David assembled at Jerusalem all the officials of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the commanders of the divisions that served the king, and the commanders of thousands, and the commanders of hundreds, and the overseers of all the property and livestock belonging to the king and his sons, with the officials and the mighty men, even all the valiant men.
Then King David rose to his feet and said, "Listen to me, my brethren and my people; I had intended to build a permanent home for the ark of the covenant of the LORD and for the footstool of our God. So I had made preparations to build it.
"But God said to me, 'You shall not build a house for My name because you are a man of war and have shed blood.'
"Yet, the LORD, the God of Israel, chose me from all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For He has chosen Judah to be a leader; and in the house of Judah, my father's house, and among the sons of my father He took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.
"Of all my sons (for the LORD has given me many sons), He has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.
"He said to me, 'Your son Solomon is the one 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.