Solomon Addresses the People: BIBLE, New American Standard Bible == BIBLE-CENTER

1 Kings, Chapter 8, verses 12-21

¹² Then Solomon said,“The LORD has said that He would dwell in the thick cloud.

¹³“I have surely built You a lofty house,
A place for Your dwelling forever.”

¹⁴ Then the king^bfaced about and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel was standing. ¹⁵ He said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who spoke with His mouth to my father David and has fulfilled it with His hand, saying, ¹⁶ ‘Since the day that I brought My people Israel from Egypt, I did not choose a city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house that My name might be there, but I chose David to be over My people Israel.’ ¹⁷ Now it was^cin the heart of my father David to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. ¹⁸ But the LORD said to my father David, ‘Because it was^din your heart to build a house for My name, you did well that it was^ein your heart. ¹⁹ Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who^fwill be born to you, he will build the house for My name.’ ²⁰ Now the LORD has fulfilled His word which He spoke; for I have risen in place of my father David and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD^gpromised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. ²¹ There I have set a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD, which He made with our fathers when He brought them from the land of Egypt.”


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