10. The Lord, therefore, has performed his word that he has spoken, for I am risen up in the place of David, my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the Lord had said, and have built the house unto the name of the Lord God of Israel.
11. And in it I have put the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord that he made with the sons of Israel.
12. Then he stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel and spread forth his hands.
13. For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, five cubits long and five cubits wide and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and upon it he stood and knelt down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel and spread forth his hands toward heaven
14. and said, O Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heaven nor in the earth who keeps covenant and shows mercy unto thy slaves that walk before thee with all their hearts;
15. who hast kept unto thy slave David, my father, that which thou hast promised him; thou didst say it with thy mouth and hast fulfilled it with thy hand, as it is this day.