7. I’ll establish his kingdom forever if he remains committed to keeping my commands and case laws as he does now.
8. So now, in the presence of all the Lord’s assembly and with God as our witness, carefully observe all the commands of the Lord your God, so that you may hold on to this good land and pass it on to your children forever.
9. As for you, Solomon, my son, acknowledge your father’s God and serve him with enthusiastic devotion, because the Lord searches every mind and understands the motive behind every thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you abandon him, he will reject you forever.
10. Now then, since the Lord has chosen you to build a temple for him as the sanctuary, work hard.
11. Then David gave his son Solomon the plan for the entrance hall, its buildings, treasuries, upper and inner rooms, and the room for the cover.
12. He provided all of the plans he had in mind: for the courtyards of the Lord’s temple, and for all its surrounding rooms where the treasures of God’s temple and the dedicated gifts would be stored;
13. for the divisions of the priests and Levites, for all their responsibilities within the Lord’s temple, and for all the equipment used in its service;
14. for the weight of all the gold equipment used for every kind of service, and the weight of all the silver equipment used for every kind of service;
15. for the weight of the gold lampstands and their gold lamps—the weight of gold for each lampstand with its lamps—and for the weight of each silver lampstand and its lamps depending on how each would be used;
16. for the weight of gold for each table with the stacks of bread, and the silver for the silver tables;