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My father David wanted to build a temple for the name of the LORD, Israel's God.
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But the LORD said to my father David: "It is very good that you thought to build a temple for my name. Nevertheless,
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you yourself won't build that temple. Instead, your very own son will build the temple for my name."
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The LORD has kept his promise—I have succeeded my father David on Israel's throne, just as the LORD said, and I have built the temple for the name of the LORD, Israel's God.
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There I've placed the chest that contains the covenant that the LORD made with the Israelites.
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Solomon stood before the LORD's altar in front of the entire Israelite assembly and spread out his hands.
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Now Solomon had made a bronze platform seven and a half feet long, seven and a half feet wide, and four and a half feet high, and he set it in the middle of the enclosure. He stood on it. Then, kneeling before the whole assembly of Israel and spreading his hands toward the sky,
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he said: LORD God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven or on the earth. You keep the covenant and show loyalty to your servants who walk before you with all their heart.
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This is the covenant you kept with your servant David my father, which you promised him. Today you have fulfilled what you promised.
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So now, LORD God of Israel, keep what you promised my father David your servant when you said to him, "You will never fail to have a successor sitting on Israel's throne as long as your descendants carefully walk according to my Instruction, just as you have walked before me."
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So now, LORD God of Israel, may your promise to your servant David come true.