Kings III 8:19-27

¹⁹Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son that has proceeded out of your bowels, he shall build the house to my name.

²⁰And the Lord has confirmed the word that he spoke, and I am risen up in the place of my father David, and I have sat down on the throne of Israel, as the Lord spoke, and I have built the house to the name of the Lord God of Israel.

²¹And I have set there a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord, which the Lord made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

²²And Solomon stood up in front of the altar before all the congregation of Israel; and he spread out his hands towards heaven:

²³and he said, Lord God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven above and on the earth beneath, keeping covenant and mercy with your servant who walks before you with all his heart;

²⁴which you have kept towards your servant David my father: for you have spoken by your mouth and you have fulfilled it with your hands, as at this day.

²⁵And now, O Lord God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father, the promises which you have spoken to him, saying, There shall not be taken from you a man sitting before me on the throne of Israel, provided only your children shall take heed to their ways, to walk before me as you have walked before me.

²⁶And now, O Lord God of Israel, let, I pray you, your word to David my father be confirmed.

²⁷But will God indeed dwell with men upon the earth? if the heaven and heaven of heavens will not suffice you, how much less even this house which I have built to your name?