5. 'From the day when I led my people away from the land of Egypt, I did not choose a city from all the tribes of Israel, so that a house would be built in it to my name. And I did not choose any other man, so that he would be the ruler of my people Israel.
6. But I chose Jerusalem, so that my name would be in it. And I chose David, so that I might appoint him over my people Israel.'
7. And though David, my father, had decided that he would build a house to the name of the Lord God of Israel,
8. the Lord said to him: 'In so far as it was your will that you build a house to my name, certainly you have done well in having such a will.
9. But you shall not build the house. Truly, your son, who will go forth from your loins, shall build a house to my name.'
10. Therefore, the Lord has accomplished his word, which he had spoken. And I have risen up in place of my father David, and I sit upon the throne of Israel, just as the Lord spoke. And I have built a house to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
11. And I have placed in it the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord that he formed with the sons of Israel."