2 Chronicles 6:1-13

11Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that He would dwell in the thick cloud.2I have built You a lofty house, And a place for Your dwelling forever.”

3Then the king 2faced about and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel was standing. 4He said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who spoke with His mouth to my father David and has fulfilled it with 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 leader over My people Israel; 6but 3I have chosen Jerusalem that My name might be there, and I 4have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’ 75Now it was 6in the heart of my father David to build a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. 8But the Lord said to my father David, ‘Because it was 7in your heart to build a house for My name, you did well that it was 8in your heart. 9Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who 9will be born to you, he shall build the house for My name.’ 10Now 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 10promised, and have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. 11There I have set the ark 11in which is the covenant of the Lord, which He made with the sons of Israel.”

12Then he stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands. 1312Now 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, 13knelt on his knees in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven.