19 Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house, but thy son that shall come out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my Name.

20 And the Lord hath [a]made good his word that he spake: and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built the house for the Name of the Lord God of Israel.

21 And I have prepared therein a place for the Ark, wherein is the [b]covenant of the Lord which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 8:20 Hebrew, confirmed.
  2. 1 Kings 8:21 The two Tables wherein the articles of the covenant were written.

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