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1 Kings 8:24-29 Common English Bible (CEB)

24. This is the covenant you kept with your servant David, my father, which you promised him. Today, you have fulfilled what you promised.

25. So now, Lord, Israel’s God, keep what you promised my father David, your servant, when you said to him, "You will never fail to have a successor sitting on Israel’s throne as long as your descendants carefully walk before me just as you walked before me."

26. So now, God of Israel, may your promise to your servant David, my father, come true.

27. But how could God possibly live on earth? If heaven, even the highest heaven, can’t contain you, how can this temple that I’ve built contain you?

28. Lord my God, listen to your servant’s prayer and request, and hear the cry and prayer that your servant prays to you today.

29. Constantly watch over this temple, the place about which you said, "My name will be there," and listen to the prayer that your servant is praying toward this place.

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