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But you are not the one to build it. Your son, who comes from your own body, is the one who will build my temple.'
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"Now the Lord has kept his promise. I am the king now in place of David my father. Now I rule Israel as the Lord promised, and I have built the Temple for the Lord, the God of Israel.
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There I have put the Ark, in which is the Agreement the Lord made with the Israelites."
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Then Solomon stood facing the Lord's altar, and all the Israelites were standing behind him. He spread out his hands.
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He had made a bronze platform seven and one-half feet long, seven and one-half feet wide, and seven and one-half feet high, and he had placed it in the middle of the outer courtyard. Solomon stood on the platform. Then he kneeled in front of all the people of Israel gathered there, and he spread out his hands toward the sky.