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But you are not the one to do it. Your son, who will carry on your dynasty, will build it for my Name.'
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"And now you see the promise completed. God has done what he said he would do; I have succeeded David my father and now rule Israel; and I have built a temple to honor God, the God of Israel,
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and have secured a place for the Chest that holds the Covenant of God, the covenant he made with the people of Israel."
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Before the entire congregation of Israel, Solomon took his position at the Altar of God and stretched out his hands.
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Solomon had made a bronze dais seven and a half feet square and four and a half feet high and placed it inside the court; that's where he now stood. Then he knelt in full view of the whole congregation, stretched his hands to heaven,
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