^{5 Ref} From the day when I took my people out of the land of Egypt, no town in all the tribes of Israel has been marked out by me for the building of a house for the resting-place of my name; and I took no man to be a ruler over my people Israel;

^{6 Ref} But now I have made selection of Jerusalem, that my name might be there, and of David, to be over my people Israel.

^{7 Ref} Now it was in the heart of my father David to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

^{8 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:

^{9 Ref} But you yourself will not be the builder of the house; but your son, the offspring of your body, he it is who will put up a house for my name.

^{10 Ref} And the Lord has kept his word; 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 the house for the name of the Lord the God of Israel.

^{11 Ref} And there I have put the ark, in which is the agreement of the Lord, which he made with the people of Israel.