2 Chronicles 6:7-11 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

7. And Solomon continued, “My father David planned to build a temple for the worship of the Lord God of Israel,

8. but the Lord said to him, ‘You were right in wanting to build a temple for me,

9. but you will never build it. It is your son, your own son, who will build my temple.’

10. “Now the Lord has kept his promise: I have succeeded my father as king of Israel, and I have built a temple for the worship of the Lord God of Israel.

11. I have placed in the Temple the Covenant Box, which contains the stone tablets of the covenant which the Lord made with the people of Israel.”

2 Chronicles 6