16. Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying,
17. Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let your word be verified, which you have spoken unto your servant David.
18. But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain you; how much less this house which I have built!
19. Have respect therefore to the prayer of your servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which your servant prays before you:
20. That your eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place of which you have said that you would put your name there; to hearken unto the prayer which your servant prays toward this place.