1 Kings 8:12-21

121Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that 2He would dwell in the thick darkness.133I have truly built You a lofty house, 4A place for Your dwelling forever.”

14Then the king 5turned around and 6blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel was standing. 15He said, “7Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, 8who spoke with His mouth to my father David, and fulfilled it with His hands, saying, 16‘9Since the day that I brought My people Israel from Egypt, I did not choose a city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house so that 10My name would be there, but 11I chose David to be over My people Israel.’ 1712Now it was 13in the heart of my father David to build a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. 18But the Lord said to my father David, ‘Because it was 14in your heart to build a house for My name, you did well that it was 15in your heart. 1916Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who 17will be born to you, he will build the house for My name.’ 20Now the Lord has fulfilled His word which He spoke; for 18I have risen in place of my father David and I sit on the throne of Israel, just as the Lord 19promised, and I have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. 21And there I have set a place for the ark, 20in which is the covenant of the Lord, which He made with our fathers when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.”