7 And though David, my father, had decided that he would build a house to the name of the Lord God of Israel,
8 the Lord said to him: 'In so far as it was your will that you build a house to my name, certainly you have done well in having such a will.
9 But you shall not build the house. Truly, your son, who will go forth from your loins, shall build a house to my name.'
10 Therefore, the Lord has accomplished his word, which he had spoken. And I have risen up in place of my father David, and I sit upon the throne of Israel, just as the Lord spoke. And I have built a house to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
11 And I have placed in it the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord that he formed with the sons of Israel.'
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