¹ Then said Solomon, `Jehovah said -- to dwell in thick darkness,

² and I -- I have built a house of habitation for Thee, and a fixed place for Thy dwelling to the ages.'

³ And the king turneth round his face, and blesseth the whole assembly of Israel, and the whole assembly of Israel is standing,

⁴ and he saith, `Blessed `is' Jehovah, God of Israel, who hath spoken with His mouth with David my father, and with His hands hath fulfilled `it', saying:

⁵ `From the day that I brought out My people from the land of Egypt, I have not fixed on a city out of any of the tribes of Israel to build a house for my name being there, and I have not fixed on a man to be leader over My people Israel;

⁶ and I fix on Jerusalem for My name being there, and I fix on David to be over My people Israel.

⁷ `And it is with the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Jehovah God of Israel,

⁸ and Jehovah saith unto David my father, Because that it hath been with thy heart to build a house for My name, thou hast done well that it hath been with thy heart,

⁹ but thou dost not build the house, for thy son who cometh forth out from thy loins, he doth build the house for My name.

¹⁰ `And Jehovah doth establish His word that He spake, and I rise up in the stead of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah spake, and I build the house for the name of Jehovah, God of Israel,

¹¹ and I place there the ark, where `is' the covenant of Jehovah that He made with the sons of Israel.'