“But the LORD said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 1 Kings 8 contains 66 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.