1 Chronicles 22:8 (WEB)
But the LORD’s word came to me, saying, ‘You have shed blood abundantly and have made great wars. You shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight.
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“And because he was a man of blood—the reference is not, as some think, to his wars, but to the murder—he was not permitted to build a temple of the Lord.” — editor's note: See, however, 1 Chron. xxii. 8.
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