1 Chronicles 28:3-5

English Standard Version

³ But God said to me, ^(A)‘You may not build a house for my name, for you are a man of war and have shed blood.’ ⁴ Yet the Lord God of Israel ^(B)chose me from all my father's house to be king over Israel ^(C)forever. ^(D)For he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah my father's ^(E)house, and among my father's sons he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel. ⁵ And of ^(F)all my sons (for the Lord has given me many sons) he ^(G)has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.