2 Chronicles 6:5-11 From the day I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I did not make choice of any city among all the tribes of Israel for a house to be built, that my name might be there; nor did I chuse a man to be ruler over my people Israel.

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ From the day I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I did not make choice of any city among all the tribes of Israel for a house to be built, that my name might be there; nor did I chuse a man to be ruler over my people Israel. ⁶ But now I have chosen Jerusalem that my name may be there, and I have made choice of David to be over my people Israel. ⁷ Yet when it came into my father David's heart to build a house to the name of the Lord God of Israel, ⁸ the Lord said to my father David, Forasmuch as it came into thy heart to build a house for my name, thou hast done well that it was in thy heart. ⁹ But thou shalt not build the house. For thy son who shall spring from thy loins, even he shall build the house for my name. ¹⁰ Now the Lord hath performed this word which he spoke. I have been raised up in the room of my father David, and am seated on the throne of Israel, as the Lord hath spoken; and I have built the house for the name of the Lord God of Israel, ¹¹ and placed therein the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord which he made with Israel.