2 Chronicles 6:3-11

3Then the king 1faced 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 2I have chosen Jerusalem that My name might be there, and I 3have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’ 74Now it was 5in 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 6in your heart to build a house for My name, you did well that it was 7in your heart. 9Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who 8will 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 9promised, and have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. 11There I have set the ark 10in which is the covenant of the Lord, which He made with the sons of Israel.”