until I went into the sanctuary of the Mighty God; then I understood their end.

And he built twenty-cubits at the rear of the house, from floor to the walls, with cedar boards; he built it inside for the inner sanctuary, the Holy of Holies.

When Your people go out to battle against their enemy, wherever You send them, and when they pray to Jehovah toward the city which You have chosen and the house which I have built for Your name,

then hear in Heaven their prayer and their supplication, and attend to their cause.

And they dwell in it, and have built You a sanctuary in it for Your name, saying,

If evil comes upon us; sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine; we will stand before this house and before Your face (for Your name is in this house), and cry out to You in our affliction, and You will hear and save.

Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. It is the City of David.

And they brought the ark of Jehovah, and set it in its place in the midst of the tent that David had erected for it. And David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Jehovah.

Cry out and shout, O inhabitant of Zion; for great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst!

What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That Jehovah has founded Zion, and the poor of His people shall take refuge in it.

By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and shall not come into this city, says Jehovah.

For I will defend this city to save it, for My own sake and for My servant David's sake.