nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for my name.
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nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for my name.
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.
Only you yourself must not build the house; instead, your son who comes from your loins, he himself will build the house for my name.’
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nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for my name.
Nevertheless, you are not the one to build it; but your son, your own offspring, will build the house for My Name.’
Nevertheless, you are not the one to build it; but your son, your own offspring, will build the house for My Name.’
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
but you do not build the house, for your son who comes forth out from your loins, he builds the house for My Name.
Nevertheless, you must not build the house; instead, your son, one who will come from your loins, will build the house for my name.'
Only you yourself must not build the house; instead, your son who comes from your loins, he himself will build the house for my name.’
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.
nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who will come out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.’
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.
But you are not going to build the Temple. Your son, one of your children, will build the Temple to honor me.’
But you yourself will not be the builder of the house; but your son, the offspring of your body, he it is who will put up a house for my name.
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.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is מֵֽחֲלָצֶ֔יךָ loins H2504 — appearing just 11 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
מֵֽחֲלָצֶ֔יךָ loins H2504 occurs in 10 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 26 words from the Hebrew and 26 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 13 Hebrew tokens and 23 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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רַ֣ק אַתָּ֔ה לֹ֥א תִבְנֶ֖ה הַבָּ֑יִת כִּ֤י בִנְךָ֙ הַיּוֹצֵ֣א מֵֽחֲלָצֶ֔יךָ הֽוּא יִבְנֶ֥ה הַבַּ֖יִת לִשְׁמִֽי
nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for my name.
World English Bible · Public Domain
πλήν σύ οὐ οἰκοδομέω ὁ οἶκος ὅτι ὁ υἱός σύ ὅς ἐκἔρχομαι ἐκ ὁ ὀσφύς σύ οὗτος οἰκοδομέω ὁ οἶκος ὁ ὄνομα ἐγώ
Nevertheless you shall not build the house; for your son who shall come forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for my name.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 13 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is châlâts (“loins”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Chronicles 6:9 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.