2 Chronicles 6:1-13 ▼

1 Then Solomon said, “YHWH said [He would] dwell in thick darkness,

2 and I have built a house of habitation for You, and a fixed place for Your dwelling for all ages.”

3 And the king turns around his face, and blesses the whole assembly of Israel, and the whole assembly of Israel is standing,

4 and he says, “Blessed [is] YHWH, God of Israel, who has spoken with His mouth with my father David, and with His hands has fulfilled [it], saying,

5 From the day that I brought out My people from the land of Egypt, I have not fixed on a city out of any of the tribes of Israel to build a house for my name being there, and I have not fixed on a man to be leader over My people Israel;

6 and I fix on Jerusalem for My Name being there, and I fix on David to be over My people Israel.

7 And it is with the heart of my father David to build a house for the Name of YHWH God of Israel,

8 and YHWH says to my father David, Because that it has been with your heart to build a house for My Name, you have done well that it has been with your heart,

9 but you do not build the house, for your son who comes forth out from your loins, he builds the house for My Name.

10 And YHWH establishes His word that He spoke, and I rise up in the stead of my father David, and sit on the throne of Israel, as YHWH spoke, and I build the house for the Name of YHWH, God of Israel,

11 and I place the Ark there, where the covenant of YHWH [is] that He made with the sons of Israel.”

12 And he stands before the altar of YHWH, in front of all the assembly of Israel, and spreads out his hand—

13 for Solomon has made a scaffold of bronze, and puts it in the midst of the court, five cubits its length, and five cubits its breadth, and three cubits its height, and he stands on it, and kneels on his knees in front of all the assembly of Israel, and spreads forth his hands toward the heavens—