“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.’”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 1 Chronicles 28 contains 21 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.