The LORD promised my father David, 'Your son, whom I will make king after you, will build a temple for me.' And I have now decided to build that temple for the worship of the LORD my God.

Out of the territory of all your tribes the LORD will choose the one place where the people are to come into his presence and worship him.

The LORD will choose a single place where he is to be worshiped, and there you must bring to him everything that I have commanded: your sacrifices that are to be burned and your other sacrifices, your tithes and your offerings, and those special gifts that you have promised to the LORD.

"If you do not obey faithfully all of God's teachings that are written in this book and if you do not honor the wonderful and awesome name of the LORD your God,

but the LORD said to him, 'You were right in wanting to build a temple for me,

"And now the LORD has kept his promise. I have succeeded my father as king of Israel, and I have built the Temple for the worship of the LORD God of Israel.

He will build a temple for me. He will be my son, and I will be his father. His dynasty will rule Israel forever.' "

This, then, is how you should pray: 'Our Father in heaven: May your holy name be honored;

may your Kingdom come; may your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Solomon also built a palace for himself, and it took him thirteen years.

After King Solomon had finished building the Temple and the palace and everything else he wanted to build,