1 Kings 8:14-16

New International Version - UK

¹⁴ While the whole assembly of Israel was standing there, the king turned round and blessed them. ¹⁵ Then he said:

‘Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who with his own hand has fulfilled what he promised with his own mouth to my father David. For he said, ¹⁶ “Since the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city in any tribe of Israel to have a temple built so that my Name might be there, but I have chosen David to rule my people Israel.”