2So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.
3Then, turning his face about, the king gave a blessing to all the men of Israel; and they were all on their feet together.
4And he said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who himself gave his word to my father David, and with his strong hand has made his word come true, saying,
5From the day when I took my people out of the land of Egypt, no town in all the tribes of Israel has been marked out by me for the building of a house for the resting-place of my name; and I took no man to be a ruler over my people Israel;
6But now I have made selection of Jerusalem, that my name might be there, and of David, to be over my people Israel.
7Now it was in the heart of my father David to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
8But the Lord said to David my father, You did well to have in your heart the desire to make a house for my name:
