2 Chronicles 6:8-18

8 But the Lord said to my father David, "You did well to consider building a house for my name;
9 nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.'
10 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.
11 There I have set the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord that he made with the people of Israel."
12 Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of the whole assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands.
13 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.
14 He said, "O Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven or on earth, keeping covenant in steadfast love with your servants who walk before you with all their heart—
15 you who have kept for your servant, my father David, what you promised to him. Indeed, you promised with your mouth and this day have fulfilled with your hand.
16 Therefore, O Lord, God of Israel, keep for your servant, my father David, that which you promised him, saying, "There shall never fail you a successor before me to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children keep to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.'
17 Therefore, O Lord, God of Israel, let your word be confirmed, which you promised to your servant David.
18 "But will God indeed reside with mortals on earth? Even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this house that I have built!

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