12. Then Solomon said,“The Lord intends to dwell in the dark cloud;
13. I have indeed built you a princely house,the base for your enthronement forever.”
14. The king turned and blessed the whole assembly of Israel, while the whole assembly of Israel stood.
15. He said: “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who with his own mouth spoke a promise to David my father and by his hand fulfilled it, saying:
16. Since the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city out of any tribe of Israel for the building of a house, that my name might be there; but I have chosen David to rule my people Israel.
17. When David my father wished to build a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel,
18. the Lord said to him: In wishing to build a house for my name, you did well.
19. But it is not you who will build the house, but your son, who comes from your loins; he shall build the house for my name.
20. Now the Lord has fulfilled the word he spoke: I have succeeded David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord has spoken, and I have built this house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
21. I have provided there a place for the ark in which is the covenant of the Lord that he made with our ancestors when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”