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As for you, Solomon, my son, acknowledge your father’s God and serve him with enthusiastic devotion, because the Lord searches every mind and understands the motive behind every thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you abandon him, he will reject you forever. 10 Now then, since the Lord has chosen you to build a temple for him[a] as the sanctuary, work hard.

11 Then David gave his son Solomon the plan for the entrance hall, its buildings, treasuries, upper and inner rooms, and the room for the cover.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 28:10 LXX; MT lacks for him.
  2. 1 Chronicles 28:11 Or mercy seat or perhaps reconciliation cover (Heb kapporet)

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