Solomon Confirms God’s Presence

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Shlomo said, "ADONAI said he would live in thick darkness.

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But I have built you a magnificent house, a place where you can live forever."

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Then the king turned around and blessed the whole community of Isra'el. The whole community of Isra'el stood

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as he said: "Blessed be ADONAI, the God of Isra'el, who spoke to my father David with his mouth and fulfilled his promise with his hand. He said,

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'Since the day I brought my people Isra'el out of Egypt, I chose no city from any of the tribes of Isra'el in which to build a house, so that my name might be there; but I did choose David to be over my people Isra'el.'

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Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of ADONAI the God of Isra'el;

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but ADONAI said to David my father, 'Although it was in your heart to build a house for my name, and you did well that it was in your heart,

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nevertheless you will not build the house. Rather, you will father a son, and it will be he who will build the house for my name.'

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Now ADONAI has fulfilled this spoken word of his; for I have succeeded my father and sit on the throne of Isra'el, as ADONAI promised; and I have built the house for the name of ADONAI the God of Isra'el.

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And there I have made a place for the ark containing the covenant of ADONAI, which he made with our ancestors when he brought them out of the land of Egypt."

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