⁴ Go and tell David my servant, Thus says the Lord: It is not you who are to build the house for me to dwell in.^(A)

^7 (A)David said to Solomon: “My son, it was my purpose to build a house myself for the name of the Lord, my God. ⁸ But this word of the Lord came to me: You have shed much blood, and you have waged great wars. You may not build a house for my name, because you have shed too much blood upon the earth in my sight. ⁹ However, a son will be born to you. He will be a peaceful man, and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side. For Solomon shall be his name, and in his time I will bestow peace^[a] and tranquility on Israel.^{(B) 10} It is he who shall build a house for my name; he shall be a son to me, and I will be a father to him,^(C) and I will establish the throne of his kingship over Israel forever.

⁵ Go and tell David my servant, Thus says the Lord: Is it you who would build me a house to dwell in?^(A)

³ ten fatted oxen, twenty pasture-fed oxen, and a hundred sheep, not counting harts, gazelles, roebucks, and fatted fowl.