5. "From the day I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I haven’t selected a city from any Israelite tribe as a site for the building of a temple for my name. Neither have I chosen anyone as prince over my people Israel.
6. But now I have chosen Jerusalem as a place for my name, and David as prince over my people Israel."
7. My father David wanted to build a temple for the name of the Lord, Israel’s God.
8. But the Lord said to my father David: "It is very good that you thought to build a temple for my name. Nevertheless,
9. you yourself won’t build that temple. Instead, your very own son will build the temple for my name."
10. The Lord has kept his promise—I have succeeded my father David on Israel’s throne, just as the Lord said, and I have built the temple for the name of the Lord, Israel’s God.
11. There I’ve placed the chest that contains the covenant that the Lord made with the Israelites.
12. Solomon stood before the Lord’s altar in front of the entire Israelite assembly and spread out his hands.
13. Now Solomon had made a bronze platform seven and a half feet long, seven and a half feet wide, and four and a half feet high, and he set it in the middle of the enclosure. He stood on it. Then, kneeling before the whole assembly of Israel and spreading his hands toward the sky,
14. he said:Lord God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven or on the earth. You keep the covenant and show loyalty to your servants who walk before you with all their heart.
15. This is the covenant you kept with your servant David my father, which you promised him. Today you have fulfilled what you promised.