⁸ But Yahweh said to David my father, Whereas 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 shall come forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for my name.

¹⁰ Yahweh has performed his word that he spoke; for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

¹¹ There have I set the ark, in which is the covenant of Yahweh, which he made with the children of Israel.

¹² He stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands

¹³ (for Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and on it he stood, and kneeled down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;)

¹⁴ and he said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven, or on earth; who keep covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;