1 Chronicles 28:9-11

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁹ ‘And you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve him with single mind and willing heart; for the Lord searches every mind, and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will abandon you for ever. ¹⁰ Take heed now, for the Lord has chosen you to build a house as the sanctuary; be strong, and act.’

¹¹ Then David gave his son Solomon the plan of the vestibule of the temple, and of its houses, its treasuries, its upper rooms, and its inner chambers, and of the room for the mercy-seat;^[a]