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:
9But you yourself will not be the builder of the house; but your son, the offspring of your body, he it is who will put up a house for my name.
10And the Lord has kept his word; for I have taken my father David's place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel, as the Lord gave his word; and I have made the house for the name of the Lord the God of Israel.
11And there I have put the ark, in which is the agreement of the Lord, which he made with the people of Israel.