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Then KingDavidrose to his feet and said, "Listen to me, my brethren and my people; I had intended to build a permanenthome for the ark of the covenant of the LORD and for the footstool* of our God. So I had madepreparations to build it.
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"Yet, the LORD, the God of Israel, chose me from all the house of my father to be kingoverIsraelforever. For He has chosenJudah to be a leader; and in the house of Judah, my father'shouse, and among the sons of my father He tookpleasure in me to make me kingoverallIsrael.
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"He said to me, 'Your sonSolomon is the one who shall build My house and My courts; for I have chosen him to be a son to Me, and I will be a father to him.
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'I will establish his kingdomforever*if he resolutelyperforms My commandments and My ordinances, as is done now.'
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"So now, in the sight of allIsrael, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, observe and seekafterall the commandments of the LORD your Godso that you may possess the goodland and bequeath it to your sonsafter you forever*.