I am now building a house for the name of Yahweh my God, to be consecrated to him, for burning fragrant incense before him, for the rows of bread set out continually, and for the burnt offerings of morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, at the new moons and at the appointed feasts of Yahweh our God. This is laid on Israel for all time.
Traditional numbering: 2:4
In context
1Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to carry loads and eighty thousand to quarry in the hills, with three thousand six hundred overseers over them. 2Then Solomon sent this message to Huram king of Tyre: “As you dealt with my father David, sending him cedars so that he could build himself a house to live in — 3I am now building a house for the name of Yahweh my God, to be consecrated to him, for burning fragrant incense before him, for the rows of bread set out continually, and for the burnt offerings of morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, at the new moons and at the appointed feasts of Yahweh our God. This is laid on Israel for all time. 4The house I am building is to be great, for our God is greater than all gods. 5Yet who has the strength to build him a house, when the heavens and the highest heavens cannot hold him? And who am I to build him a house, except as a place to burn offerings before him?
