6 Then Shelomoh 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 pronounced a blessing over them, 4 saying, “Blessed be Yahweh the god of Yisrael who spoke physically to my father David, and then caused it to actually happen, when you said back then,[ref] 5 ‘From the time that I brought my people out of Egypt, I hadn’t choosen a city from all the tribes of Yisrael 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 Israel, 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 chest in there—the box that contains the agreement that Yahweh made with Yisrael’s descendants.”