2 Chronicles 6:1-15 ▼

1 Then 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.”

3 Then the king turned his face around and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel was standing.

4 And 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;

6 but I have chosen Jerusalem that My name might be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’

7 And it was in 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 in your heart to build a house for My name, you did well that it was in your heart.

9 Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who will come 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 promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

11 And there I have set the ark in which is the covenant of Yahweh, which He cut with the sons of Israel.”

12 Then he stood before the altar of Yahweh before all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.

13 Now Solomon had made a bronze platform, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high, and had put it in the midst of the court; and he stood on it, knelt on his knees in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven.

14 And he said, “O Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no god like You in heaven or on earth, keeping covenant and lovingkindness to Your slaves who walk before You with all their heart;

15 who have kept with Your servant David, my father, that which You have promised him; indeed You have promised with Your mouth and have fulfilled it by Your hand, as it is this day.