1 Kings 8:19-21

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹⁹ nevertheless, you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.’^{(A) 20} Now the Lord has fulfilled the promise that he made, for I have risen in the place of my father David; I sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.^{(B) 21} There I have provided a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord that he made with our ancestors when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”^(C)