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And he said: "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who has fulfilled with His hands what He spoke with His mouth to my father David, saying,
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'Since the day that I brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I have chosen no city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house, that My name might be there, nor did I choose any man to be a ruler over My people Israel.
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Yet I have chosen Jerusalem, that My name may be there; and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.'
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Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a temple for the name of the Lord God of Israel.
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But the Lord said to my father David, 'Whereas it was in your heart to build a temple for My name, you did well in that it was in your heart.
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Nevertheless you shall not build the temple, but your son who will come from your body, he shall build the temple for My name.'
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So the Lord has fulfilled His word which He spoke, and I have filled the position of my father David, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised; and I have built the temple for the name of the Lord God of Israel.
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And there I have put the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord which He made with the children of Israel."
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Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands
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(for Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and he stood on it, knelt down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven);
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and he said: "Lord God of Israel, there is no God in heaven or on earth like You, who keep Your covenant and mercy with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.