Nevertheless, you are not the one to build it; but your son, your own offspring, will build the house for My Name.’
Here, I. Solomon encourages the priests, who came out of the temple from their ministration, much astonished at the dark cloud that overshadowed them. The disciples of Christ feared when they entered into the cloud, though it was a bright cloud (Luk 9:34), so did the priests when they found themselves wrapped in a thick cloud. To silence their fears, 1.
Commenting on 1 Kings 8:12-21
Nevertheless, thou shall not build the house,.... Which is implied in the question in Sa2 7:5. but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name; which is expressed in Sa2 7:12.
1Ki 8:17-19 David’s intention to build the temple, and the answer of God that his son was to execute this work, are so far copied from 2Sa 7:2, 2Sa 7:12-13, that God approves the intention of David as such. הטיבת, “Thou didst well that it was in thy mind.”
Commenting on 1 Kings 8:17-19