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nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.
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And Jehovah hath performed his word that he spake; for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah promised, and have built the house for the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel.
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And there have I set the ark, wherein is the covenant of Jehovah, which he made with the children of Israel.
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And he stood before the altar of Jehovah in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands
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(for Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;)
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