12. Then said Solomon, `Jehovah hath said to dwell in thick darkness;
13. I have surely built a house of habitation for Thee; a fixed place for Thine abiding to the ages.'
14. And the king turneth round his face, and blesseth the whole assembly of Israel; and all the assembly of Israel is standing.
15. And he saith, `Blessed [is] Jehovah, God of Israel, who spake by His mouth with David my father, and by His hand hath fulfilled [it], saying,
16. From the day that I brought out My people, even Israel, from Egypt, I have not fixed on a city out of all the tribes of Israel, to build a house for My name being there; and I fix on David to be over My people Israel.
17. `And it is with the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Jehovah, God of Israel,
18. and Jehovah saith unto David my father, Because that it hath been with thy heart to build a house for My name, thou hast done well that it hath been with thy heart;
19. only, thou dost not build the house, but thy son who is coming out from thy loins, he doth build the house for My name.
20. `And Jehovah doth establish His word which He spake, and I am risen up instead of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah spake, and build the house for the name of Jehovah, God of Israel,