II Chronicles 06 Solomon Blesses the People and Gives Thanks to the God of Israel

 II Chronicles 06

Solomon Blesses the People and Gives Thanks to the God of Israel

1 Then Solomon said, "The Lord said that He would dwell in the thick darkness.

2 And I have built you a house to dwell in, and a place for you to dwell forever."

3 Then the king turned his face and blessed the whole assembly of Israel, and the whole assembly of Israel stood.

4 And he said, "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who spoke with His mouth to David my father and has fulfilled it with His hands, saying,

5 Since the day that I brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that My Name might be there; nor did I choose any man to be ruler over My people Israel.

6 But I chose Jerusalem, that My Name might be there; and I chose David, that he might be over My people Israel.

7 It was in my father David's heart to build a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. 

8 But the Lord said to my father David, "Because it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well to have it in your heart. 

9 Nevertheless, you shall not build the house; your son who will come from your loins will build the house for my name." 

10 Thus the Lord has confirmed the word that he spoke, for I have risen up in the place of my father David and sat on the throne of Israel, as the Lord had said, and I have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. 

11 And I have put in it the ark, in which is the covenant that the Lord made with the children of Israel.