1st Kings 8:11-21

¹¹and the priests might not stand and minister, for the cloud; for why the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.

¹²Then Solomon said, The Lord said, that he would dwell in a cloud or a mist.

¹³I building have builded an house into thy dwelling place, into thy most steadfast throne without end.

¹⁴And the king turned his face, and blessed all the church in Israel; for all the church of Israel stood.

¹⁵And Solomon said, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, that spake with his mouth to David, my father, and performed it in his hands, and said,

¹⁶From the day in which I led my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose not a city of all the lineages of Israel, that an house should be builded, and my name should be there; but I chose David, that he should be over my people Israel.

¹⁷And David, my father, would build or would have builded an house to the name of the Lord God of Israel.

¹⁸And the Lord said to David, my father, That thou thoughtest in thine heart to build an house to my name, thou didest well, treating this same thing in thy soul;

¹⁹nevertheless thou shalt not build an house to me, but thy son, that shall go out of thy reins, he shall build an house to my name.

²⁰The Lord hath now confirmed his word, that he spake; and I stood for David, my father, and I sat upon the throne of Israel, as the Lord spake; and I have builded an house to the name of the Lord God of Israel.

²¹And I have ordained there a place of the ark, in which ark the bond of peace of the Lord is, which he smote with our fathers, when they went out of the land of Egypt.