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'For My Name' in the Bible

He will be the builder of a house for my name, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever.

And so it is my purpose to make a house for the name of the Lord my God, as he said to David my father, Your son, whom I will make king in your place, will be the builder of a house for my name.

But the Lord said to David my father, You did well to have in your heart the desire to make a house for my name;

But you yourself will not be the builder of my house; but your son, the offspring of your body, he it is who will put up a house for my name.

But the word of the Lord came to me saying, You have taken lives without number and made great wars; I will not let you be the builder of a house for my name, because of the lives you have taken on the earth before my eyes.

He will be the builder of a house for my name; he will be to me a son, and I will be to him a father; and I will make the seat of his rule over Israel certain for ever.

But God said to me, You are not to be the builder of a house for my name, because you are a man of war and have taken life;

But the Lord said to David my father, You did well to have in your heart the desire to make a house for my name:

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.

Then I will have this people uprooted out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will put away from before my eyes, and make it an example and a word of shame among all peoples.

For, from the coming up of the sun till its going down, my name is great among the Gentiles; and in every place the smell of burning flesh is offered to my name, and a clean offering: for my name is great among the Gentiles, says the Lord of armies.

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain