^{18 Ref} But the Lord said to David my father, You did well to have in your heart the desire to make a house for my name;

^{19 Ref} But you yourself will not be the builder of my house; but your son, the offspring of your body, he it is who will put up a house for my name.

^{20 Ref} And the Lord has made his word come true; for I have taken my father David's place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel, as the Lord gave his word; and I have made a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

^{21 Ref} In it I have made a place for the ark, in which is the agreement which the Lord made with our fathers, when he took them out of the land of Egypt.