7. Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
8. But the Lord said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.
9. Nevertheless, it is not you who shall 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 risen in the place of David my father and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and I have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
11. And 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 all the 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 all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven,