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nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.'
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Now the Lord has fulfilled his promise that he made; for I have succeeded my father David, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
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There I have set the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord that he made with the people of Israel."
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Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of the whole assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands.
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Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the court; and he stood on it. Then he knelt on his knees in the presence of the whole assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven.