In Context

8 But Yahweh said to David my father, 'Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart:

9 nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.'

10 |Yahweh has performed his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

11 There I have set the ark, in which is the covenant of Yahweh, which he made with the children of Israel.|

12 He stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands

13 (for Solomon had made a bronze scaffold, five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and on it he stood, and kneeled down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;)

2 Chronicles 6:11 in Other Translations