2 Chronicles 6:1-11
Solomon Blesses the People
6aThen Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that He would dwell in the cloud of dense gloom.
2“Now I have built You a lofty house,And a place for Your dwelling forever.”3Then the king turned his face around and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel was standing. 4And he said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with His mouth to my father David and has fulfilled it by His hands, saying, 5‘Since the day that I brought My people from the land of Egypt, I did not choose a city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house that My name might be there, nor did I choose any man for a ruler over My people Israel; 6but aI have chosen Jerusalem that My name might be there, and I bhave chosen David to be over My people Israel.’ 7“aAnd it was 1in the heart of my father David to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. 8“But Yahweh said to my father David, ‘Because it was 1in your heart to build a house for My name, you did well that it was 2in your heart. 9‘Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who will acome forth from your loins, he shall build the house for My name.’ 10“And Yahweh has established His word which He spoke; and I have been established in place of my father David and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh 1promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. 11“And there I have set the ark ain which is the covenant of Yahweh, which He cut with the sons of Israel.”