1 Kings 8:18-20

The Voice

¹⁸ but He told my father, David, “It was good enough that this desire was in your heart to build such a temple for My name. ¹⁹ However you will not be the one to build this place; but your son who is yet to be born will build your vision, this temple, for My name.”

²⁰ The Eternal has kept this promise. I now sit upon my father David’s throne—the throne of Israel—just as He said, and I have constructed the temple honoring the reputation of the Eternal One, Israel’s God.