17. Now then, O Lord God of Israel, let thy word stand firm, which thou hast spoken unto thy slave David.
18. Is it true that God is to dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee, how much less this house which I have built!
19. But thou shalt look upon the prayer of thy slave and upon his supplication, O Lord my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer with which thy slave prays before thee
20. that thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there, to hearken unto the prayer which thy slave prays in this place.