Cross references

1 Chronicles 17:4

“Go and tell My servant David that this is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build Me a house in which to dwell.

1 Chronicles 17:4 BSB

1 Chronicles 17:4 has 7 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 1 Chronicles 28:2–3 (4 votes) and 2 Samuel 7:4–5 (3 votes). 15 other verses point back to it. It links with 9 other books, from Deuteronomy 3 to Romans 11.

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Which verses does 1 Chronicles 17:4 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Then King David rose to his feet and said, “Listen to me, my brothers and my people. It was in my heart to build a house as a resting place for the ark of the covenant of the LORD and as a footstool for our God. I had made preparations to build it, but God said to me, ‘You are not to build a house for My Name, because you are a man of war who has shed blood.’

  2. But that night the word of the LORD came to Nathan, saying, “Go and tell My servant David that this is what the LORD says: Are you the one to build for Me a house to dwell in?

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

  4. “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.

  5. “My son,” said David to Solomon, “it was in my heart to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God, but this word of the LORD came to me: ‘You have shed much blood and waged great wars. You are not to build a house for My Name because you have shed so much blood on the ground before Me.

  6. But the LORD said to my father David, ‘Since it was in your heart to build a house for My Name, you have done well to have this in your heart. Nevertheless, you are not the one to build it; but your son, your own offspring, will build the house for My Name.’

  7. O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways! “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”

Which verses point to 1 Chronicles 17:4?

The 10 strongest of 15.