2 Chronicles 6:1-6 ▼

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.’