Seek the Lord and the strength he gives! Seek his presence continually!

He is the Lord our God; he carries out judgment throughout the earth.

David went in, sat before the Lord, and said: “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, that you should have brought me to this point?

“Now, my son, may the Lord be with you! May you succeed and build a temple for the Lord your God, just as he announced you would.

Only may the Lord give you insight and understanding when he places you in charge of Israel, so you may obey the law of the Lord your God.

This was the order in which they carried out their assigned responsibilities when they entered the Lord’s temple, according to the regulations given them by their ancestor Aaron, just as the Lord God of Israel had instructed him.

From all the many sons the Lord has given me, he chose Solomon my son to rule on his behalf over Israel.

He gave him the regulations for the divisions of priests and Levites, for all the assigned responsibilities within the Lord’s temple, and for all the items used in the service of the Lord’s temple.

David praised the Lord before the entire assembly: “O Lord God of our father Israel, you deserve praise forevermore!

O Lord, you are great, mighty, majestic, magnificent, glorious, and sovereign over all the sky and earth! You have dominion and exalt yourself as the ruler of all.

Boast about his holy name! Let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice!

Let the heavens rejoice, and the earth be happy! Let the nations say, ‘The Lord reigns!’

The Lord told Gad, David’s prophet,

So David went up as Gad instructed him to do in the name of the Lord.

The Lord ordered the messenger to put his sword back into its sheath.

They had dedicated some of the plunder taken in battles to be used for repairs on the Lord’s temple.

Now seek the Lord your God wholeheartedly and with your entire being! Get up and build the sanctuary of the Lord God! Then you can bring the ark of the Lord’s covenant and the holy items dedicated to God’s service into the temple that is built to honor the Lord.”

Jehozadak went into exile when the Lord sent the people of Judah and Jerusalem into exile by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

These are the men David put in charge of music in the Lord’s sanctuary, after the ark was placed there.

Phinehas son of Eleazar had been their leader in earlier times, and the Lord was with him.