1. Then Solomon said:“The Lord intends to dwell in the dark cloud;
2. I have built you a princely house,the base for your enthronement forever.”
3. The king turned and blessed the whole assembly of Israel, while the whole assembly of Israel stood.
4. He said: “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who with his own mouth spoke a promise to David my father and by his hand fulfilled it, saying:
5. Since the day I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city out of any tribe of Israel for the building of a house, that my name might be there; nor have I chosen any man to be ruler of my people Israel;
6. but now I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name may be there, and I have chosen David to rule my people Israel.
7. When David my father wished to build a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel,
8. the Lord said to him: In wishing to build a house for my name, you did well.
9. But it is not you who will build the house, but your son, who comes from your loins: he shall build the house for my name.
10. “Now the Lord has fulfilled the word he spoke. I have succeeded David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord has said, and I have built this house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.