7 “And it was in the heart of my father Dawiḏ to build a House for the Name of יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl.
8 “But יהוה said to my father Dawiḏ, ‘Because it was in your heart to build a House for My Name, you did well in that it was in your heart.
9 ‘But you do not build the house, for your son who comes forth from your loins, he does build the House for My Name.’
10 “Now יהוה has established His word which He spoke, and I have been raised up instead of my father Dawiḏ, and sit on the throne of Yisra’ĕl, as יהוה promised. And I have built the House for the Name of יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl.
11 “And there I have placed the ark, in which is the covenant of יהוה which He made with the children of Yisra’ĕl.”
12 And he stood before the altar of יהוה in front of all the assembly of Yisra’ĕl, and spread out his hands –
13 for Shelomoh had made a bronze platform five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had put it in the midst of the court. And he stood on it, and knelt down on his knees before all the assembly of Yisra’ĕl, and spread out his hands toward the heavens –