2 Chronicles 6:9
Modern Translations
New International Version
Nevertheless, you are not the one to build the temple, but your son, your own flesh and blood--he is the one who will build the temple for my Name.'

New Living Translation
but you are not the one to do it. One of your own sons will build the Temple to honor me.’

English Standard Version
Nevertheless, it is not you who shall build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.’

Berean Study Bible
Nevertheless, you are not the one to build it; but your son, your own offspring, will build the house for My Name.’

New American Standard Bible
Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who will be born to you, he shall build the house for My name.’

NASB 1995
'Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who will be born to you, he shall build the house for My name.'

NASB 1977
‘Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you, he shall build the house for My name.’

Amplified Bible
Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who will be born to you, he shall build the house for My Name.’

Christian Standard Bible
Yet, you are not the one to build the temple, but your son, your own offspring, will build the temple for my name.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Yet, you are not the one to build the temple, but your son, your own offspring, will build the temple for My name."

Contemporary English Version
But you're not the one to do it. Your son will build the temple to honor me."

Good News Translation
but you will never build it. It is your son, your own son, who will build my temple.'

GOD'S WORD® Translation
But you must not build the temple. Instead, your own son will build the temple for my name.'

International Standard Version
Nevertheless, you are not to build the Temple, but your son who will be born to you is to build a temple for my name.'

NET Bible
But you will not build the temple; your very own son will build the temple for my honor.'
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.

New King James Version
Nevertheless you shall not build the temple, but your son who will come from your body, he shall build the temple for My name.’

King James 2000 Bible
Nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.

New Heart English Bible
nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.'

World English Bible
nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.'

American King James Version
Notwithstanding you shall not build the house; but your son which shall come forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for my name.

American Standard Version
nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.

A Faithful Version
But you shall not build the house. Now your son, who shall come forth out of your loins, shall build the house for My name. '

Darby Bible Translation
nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.

English Revised Version
nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.

Webster's Bible Translation
Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son who shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house, but thy sonne which shall come out of thy loynes, he shall buylde an house vnto my Name.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Notwithstanding, thou shalt not buyld the house: but thy sonne which is proceeded out of thy loynes, he shall buylde an house for my name.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
howbeit thou shalt not buylde the house, but thy sonne which shall come out of thy loynes, shal buylde the house vnto my name.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
but you do not build the house, for your son who comes forth out from your loins, he builds the house for My Name.

Young's Literal Translation
but thou dost not build the house, for thy son who cometh forth out from thy loins, he doth build the house for My name.

Smith's Literal Translation
But thou shalt not build the house; for thy son coming forth from thy loins, he shall build the house to my name.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
But thou shalt not build the house, but thy son, who shall come out of thy loins, he shall build a house to my name.

Catholic Public Domain Version
But you shall not build the house. Truly, your son, who will go forth from your loins, shall build a house to my name.’

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
But you shall not build a house, but your son who proceeds from your loins shall build a house for my name.’

Lamsa Bible
Nevertheless you shall not build the house for my name, but your son who shall come forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for my name.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
nevertheless thou shalt not build the house, but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for My name.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; for thy son who shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.
















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