1. Then Solomon said:“The Lord intends to dwell in the dark cloud;
2. I have built you a princely house,the base for your enthronement forever.”
3. The king turned and blessed the whole assembly of Israel, while the whole assembly of Israel stood.
4. 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:
5. Since the day I brought my people out of the land 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; nor have I chosen any man to be ruler of my people Israel;
6. but now I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name may be there, and I have chosen David to rule my people Israel.
7. When David my father wished to build a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel,
8. the Lord said to him: In wishing to build a house for my name, you did well.
9. 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.
10. “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 said, and I have built this house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
11. I have placed there the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord that he made with the Israelites.”
12. Then he stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of the whole assembly of Israel and stretched forth his hands.