2 Chronicles 6:1-11

21st Century King James Version

6 Then said Solomon: “The Lord hath said that He would dwell in the thick darkness.

² But I have built a house of habitation for Thee, and a place for Thy dwelling for ever.”

³ And the king turned his face and blessed the whole congregation of Israel, and all the congregation of Israel stood.

⁴ And he said, “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who hathwith His hands fulfilled that which He spoke with His mouth to my ather David, saying,

⁵ ‘Since the day that I brought forth My people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build house in, that My name might be there, neither chose I any man to be a ruler over My people Israel;

⁶ but I have chosen Jerusalem, that My name might be there, and have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’

⁷ Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.

⁸ But the Lord said to David my father: ‘Inasmuch as it was in thine heart to build a house for My name, thou didst well in that t was in thine heart.

⁹ Notwithstanding, thou shalt not build the house; but thy son who shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house or My name.’

¹⁰ The Lord therefore hath performed His word that He hath spoken; for I have risen up in the place of David my father and m set on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built the house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.

¹¹ And in it have I put the ark wherein is the covenant of the Lord that He made with the children of Israel.”