Solomon sent this message to Hiram: “You know my father David was not able to build a temple for the name of the Lord his God. This was because of the warfare all around him until the Lord put his enemies under his feet.(A) The Lord my God has now given me rest on every side; there is no enemy or misfortune.(B) So I plan to build a temple for the name of the Lord my God,(C) according to what the Lord promised my father David: ‘I will put your son on your throne in your place, and he will build the temple for my name.’(D)

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14 When Solomon finished building the temple,[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 6:11–14 LXX omits these vv.

38 In his eleventh year in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month,[a] the temple was completed in every detail and according to every specification.(A) So he built it in seven years.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 6:38 = October–November

17 My father David had his heart set
on building a temple for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.(A)
18 But the Lord said to my father David,
“Since your heart was set on building a temple for my name,
you have done well to have this desire.[a](B)
19 Yet you are not the one to build it;
instead, your son, your own offspring,
will build it for my name.”(C)
20 The Lord has fulfilled what he promised.
I have taken the place of my father David,(D)
and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised.(E)
I have built the temple for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 8:18 Lit well because it was with your heart

but I have built an exalted temple for you,
a place for your dwelling forever.

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