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And David said, "Solomon my son is a tender child, and the house to be built for the Lord must be for greatness on high, for a name and for glory in all the earth; I will prepare for him." And David prepared in abundance before his death.
But a word of the Lord came upon me, saying, 'You have poured out blood in abundance and have waged great wars; you shall not build a house for my name, because you have poured out much blood upon the earth before me.
Behold, a son is being born to you; this one will be a man of rest, and I will give him rest from all the enemies round about, for Solomon is his name. And peace and quiet I will give upon Israel in his days.
He shall build a house for my name, and he shall be a son to me, and I a father to him, and I will set up the throne of his kingdom in Israel forever.'
Then you will prosper, if you keep to do the ordinances and the judgments which the Lord commanded Moses concerning Israel. Be a man and be strong; do not fear nor be dismayed.
And behold, I in my poverty have prepared for the house of the Lord a hundred thousand talents of gold and a thousand thousand talents of silver, and bronze and iron of which there is no weighing, for it is in abundance; and timbers and stones I have prepared, and to these add more.
"Is not the Lord with you? And has he not given you rest round about? For he has given into your hands those who inhabit the land, and the land has been subdued before the Lord and before his people.
Now give your hearts and your souls to seek the Lord your God, and rise up and build a sanctuary to the Lord your God, to bring in the ark of the covenant of the Lord and the holy vessels of God into the house that is being built for the name of the Lord."