6 Then Shelomoh (Solomon) prayed, “Yahweh, you said that you would live in a dark cloud, 2 but I’ve built a beautiful residence for you—a place for you to live in forever.”

3 ⇔Then, while all the people stood there, Shelomoh turned toward them and spoke a blessing over them, 4 saying, “Yahweh, Yisrael’s (Israel’s) god, is blessed, who spoke physically to my father David, and then caused it to actually happen, when he said back then,[ref] 5 ‘When I brought my people out of Mitsrayim (Egypt), I hadn’t chosen a city from all of Yisrael’s tribes as a place to build a house so my name could be there. Nor had I chosen a man to be leader over my people, Yisrael, 6 but now I’ve chosen Yerushalem (Jerusalem) to be my place of residence, and I’ve chosen you, David, to be over my people, Yisrael.’

7 “My father David wanted to build a temple for Yisrael’s god Yahweh, 8 but Yahweh told him, ‘It’s good that you wanted to build a house to honour me, 9 but you won’t be the one to build it. It’ll be your own biological son who’ll build the temple to honour my reputation.’

10 “Now Yahweh has fulfilled what he said, and I’m here sitting on Yisrael’s throne instead of my father David, just as Yahweh said, and I’ve had this temple built to honour Yisrael’s god Yahweh. 11 I’ve placed the sacred box in there—the box that contains the agreement Yahweh made with Yisrael’s descendants.”