1 Kings 8:12-21

New International Version

“Praise be to the Lord,^(D) the God of Israel, who with his own hand has fulfilled what he promised with his own mouth to my father David. For he said, ¹⁶ ‘Since the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt,^(E) I have not chosen a city in any tribe of Israel to have a temple built so that my Name^(F) might be there, but I have chosen^(G) David^(H) to rule my people Israel.’

¹⁷ “My father David had it in his heart^(I) to build a temple^(J) for the Name of the Lord, the God of Israel. ¹⁸ But the Lord said to my father David, ‘You did well to have it in your heart to build a temple for my Name. ¹⁹ Nevertheless, you^(K) are not the one to build the temple, but your son, your own flesh and blood—he is the one who will build the temple for my Name.’^(L)

²⁰ “The Lord has kept the promise he made: I have succeeded^(M) David my father and now I sit on the throne of Israel, just as the Lord promised, and I have built^(N) the temple for the Name of the Lord, the God of Israel. ²¹ I have provided a place there for the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord that he made with our ancestors when he brought them out of Egypt.”