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But you yourself will not be the builder of the house; but your son, the offspring of your body, he it is who will put up a house for my name.
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And the Lord has kept his word; for I have taken my father David's place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel, as the Lord gave his word; and I have made the house for the name of the Lord the God of Israel.
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And there I have put the ark, in which is the agreement of the Lord, which he made with the people of Israel.
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Then he took his place in front of the altar of the Lord, all the men of Israel being present,
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(For Solomon had made a brass stage, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high, and had put it in the middle of the open space; on this he took his place and went down on his knees before all the meeting of Israel, stretching out his hands to heaven.)
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