1 Kings 8:12–21

¹²Then said Solomon, ‘Jehovah hath said to dwell in thick darkness; ¹³I have surely built a house of habitation for Thee; a fixed place for Thine abiding to the ages.’ ¹⁴And the king turneth round his face, and blesseth the whole assembly of Israel; and all the assembly of Israel is standing. ¹⁵And he saith, ‘Blessed is Jehovah, God of Israel, who spake by His mouth with David my father, and by His hand hath fulfilled it, saying, ¹⁶From the day that I brought out My people, even Israel, from Egypt, I have not fixed on a city out of all the tribes of Israel, to build a house for My name being there; and I fix on David to be over My people Israel.

¹⁷‘And it is with the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Jehovah, God of Israel, ¹⁸and Jehovah saith unto David my father, Because that it hath been with thy heart to build a house for My name, thou hast done well that it hath been with thy heart; ¹⁹only, thou dost not build the house, but thy son who is coming out from thy loins, he doth build the house for My name.

²⁰‘And Jehovah doth establish His word which He spake, and I am risen up instead of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah spake, and build the house for the name of Jehovah, God of Israel, ²¹and set there a place for the ark, where is the covenant of Jehovah which He made with our fathers in His bringing them out from the land of Egypt.’