9
you yourself won't build that temple. Instead, your very own son will build the temple for my name."
10
The LORD has kept his promise—I have succeeded my father David on Israel's throne, just as the LORD said, and I have built the temple for the name of the LORD, Israel's God.
11
There I've placed the chest that contains the covenant that the LORD made with the Israelites.
12
Solomon stood before the LORD's altar in front of the entire Israelite assembly and spread out his hands.
13
Now Solomon had made a bronze platform seven and a half feet long, seven and a half feet wide, and four and a half feet high, and he set it in the middle of the enclosure. He stood on it. Then, kneeling before the whole assembly of Israel and spreading his hands toward the sky,