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Nevertheless you shall not build the temple, but your son who will come from your body, he shall build the temple for My name.'
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So the Lord has fulfilled His word which He spoke, and I have filled the position of my father David, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised; and I have built the temple for the name of the Lord God of Israel.
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And there I have put the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord which He made with the children of Israel."
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Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands
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(for Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and he stood on it, knelt down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven);