2 Chronicles 6:9-11

Easy-to-Read Version

⁹ but you cannot build the Temple. Your son will build the Temple for my name.’ ¹⁰ Now, the Lord has done what he said he would do. I am the new king in my father’s place. David was my father. Now I am Israel’s king. That is what the Lord promised, and I have built the Temple for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. ¹¹ I have put the Box of the Agreement in the Temple. The Lord’s Agreement with Israel is in that box.”