6. but I have chosen Jerusalem that My name might be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.'
7. Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
8. But the Lord said to my father David, 'Because it was in your heart to build a house for My name, you did well that it was in your heart.
9. Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who will be born to you, he shall build the house for My name.'
10. Now the Lord has fulfilled His word which He spoke; for I have risen in the place of my father David and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
11. There I have set the ark in which is the covenant of the Lord, which He made with the sons of Israel."
12. Then he stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.
13. Now Solomon had made a bronze platform, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and he stood on it, knelt on his knees in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven.
14. He said, "O Lord, the God of Israel, there is no god like You in heaven or on earth, keeping covenant and showing lovingkindness to Your servants who walk before You with all their heart;