3. Then the king turned his face around, and he blessed the entire assembly of Israel while all the assembly of Israel was standing before him.
4. And he said:“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel who spoke with David my father and fulfilled His promise saying,
5. ‘Since the day that I brought out My people from the land of Egypt, I did not choose any city from among the tribes of Israel to build a house for My name to dwell there, nor did I select a man to be the leader over My people Israel;
6. but I have chosen Jerusalem for My name to dwell there, and I have selected David to be over My people Israel.’
7. “And it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the Lord 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 because of what was in your heart;
9. only you will not be the one to build the house. For your son, who will be born to you, he will build a house for My name.’
10. “The Lord has fulfilled the word that He spoke. For I have risen up in the place of David my father and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord spoke, and I will build the house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.
11. And there I have set the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord that He made with the children of Israel.”