1 Kings 8:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then Solomon said, O Lord, to the sun you have given the heaven for a living-place, but your living-place was not seen by men;

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 97:2 : 2 Dark clouds are round him; his kingdom is based on righteousness and right judging.
  • Lev 16:2 : 2 The Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, your brother, that he may not come at all times into the holy place inside the veil, before the cover which is on the ark, for fear that death may overtake him; for I will be seen in the cloud on the cover of the ark.
  • 2 Chr 6:1-9 : 1 Then Solomon said, O Lord, to the sun you have given the heaven for a living-place, but your living-place was not seen by men, 2 So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present. 3 Then, turning his face about, the king gave a blessing to all the men of Israel; and they were all on their feet together. 4 And he said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who himself gave his word to my father David, and with his strong hand has made his word come true, saying, 5 From the day when I took my people out of the land of Egypt, no town in all the tribes of Israel has been marked out by me for the building of a house for the resting-place of my name; and I took no man to be a ruler over my people Israel; 6 But now I have made selection of Jerusalem, that my name might be there, and of David, to be over my people Israel. 7 Now it was in the heart of my father David to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. 8 But the Lord said to David my father, You did well to have in your heart the desire to make a house for my name: 9 But you yourself will not be the builder of the house; but your son, the offspring of your body, he it is who will put up a house for my name. 10 And the Lord has kept his word; for I have taken my father David's place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel, as the Lord gave his word; and I have made the house for the name of the Lord the God of Israel. 11 And there I have put the ark, in which is the agreement of the Lord, which he made with the people of Israel.
  • Isa 45:15 : 15 Truly, you have a secret God, the God of Israel is a Saviour!
  • Heb 12:18 : 18 You have not come to a mountain which may be touched, and is burning with fire, and to a black cloud, and a dark smoke, and a violent wind,
  • Exod 20:21 : 21 And the people kept their places far off, but Moses went near to the dark cloud where God was.
  • Ps 18:8-9 : 8 There went up a smoke from his nose, and a fire of destruction from his mouth: flames were lighted by it. 9 The heavens were bent, so that he might come down; and it was dark under his feet. 10 And he went in flight through the air, seated on a storm-cloud: going quickly on the wings of the wind. 11 He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
  • Deut 4:11 : 11 And you came near, waiting at the foot of the mountain; and flames of fire went up from the mountain to the heart of heaven, with dark clouds, and all was black as night.
  • Deut 5:22 : 22 These words the Lord said to all of you together on the mountain, out of the heart of the fire, out of the cloud and the dark, with a great voice: and he said no more; he put them in writing on the two stones of the law and gave them to me.

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  • 2 Chr 6:1-2
    2 verses
    95%

    1 Then Solomon said, O Lord, to the sun you have given the heaven for a living-place, but your living-place was not seen by men,

    2 So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.

  • 1 Kgs 8:13
    78%

    13 So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.

  • 1 Kgs 8:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10 Now when the priests had come out of the holy place, the house of the Lord was full of the cloud,

    11 So that the priests were not able to keep their places to do their work because of the cloud, for the house of the Lord was full of the glory of the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 7:12
    75%

    12 Now the Lord came to Solomon in a vision by night, and said to him, I have given ear to your prayer, and have taken this place for myself as a house where offerings are to be made.

  • 1 Kgs 6:11-13
    3 verses
    74%

    11 (And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,

    12 About this house which you are building: if you will keep my laws and give effect to my decisions and be guided by my rules, I will give effect to my word which I gave to David your father.

    13 And I will be ever among the children of Israel, and will not go away from my people.

  • 2 Sam 22:12
    73%

    12 And he made the dark his tent round him, a mass of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

  • Ps 18:11
    72%

    11 He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

  • Ps 97:2
    71%

    2 Dark clouds are round him; his kingdom is based on righteousness and right judging.

  • 1 Kgs 8:27
    71%

    27 But is it truly possible that God may be housed on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place; how much less this house which I have made!

  • Acts 7:47
    71%

    47 But Solomon was the builder of his house.

  • 2 Chr 1:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7 In that night God came to Solomon in a vision, and said to him, Say what I am to give you.

    8 And Solomon said to God, Great was your mercy to David my father, and you have made me king in his place.

  • 2 Chr 6:18
    70%

    18 But is it truly possible that God may be housed with men on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place: how much less this house which I have made:

  • 2 Chr 7:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1 Now when Solomon's prayers were ended, fire came down from heaven, burning up all the offerings; and the house was full of the glory of the Lord.

    2 And the priests were not able to go into the house of the Lord, for the Lord's house was full of the glory of the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 9:3
    70%

    3 And the Lord said to him, Your prayers and your requests for grace have come to my ears: I have made holy this house which you have made, and I have put my name there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

  • 2 Chr 8:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11 Then Solomon made Pharaoh's daughter come up from the town of David to the house which he had made for her; for he said, I will not have my wife living in the house of David, king of Israel, because those places where the ark of the Lord has come are holy.

    12 Then Solomon made burned offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord which he had put up in front of the covered way,

  • 1 Chr 22:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    6 Then he sent for his son Solomon, and gave him orders for the building of a house for the Lord, the God of Israel.

    7 And David said to Solomon, My son, it was my desire to put up a house for the name of the Lord my God.

  • Dan 2:22
    69%

    22 He is the unveiler of deep and secret things: he has knowledge of what is in the dark, and the light has its living-place with him.

  • 2 Chr 20:8
    69%

    8 And they made it their living-place, building there a holy house for your name, and saying,

  • Jer 13:16
    69%

    16 Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

  • 1 Kgs 8:21-22
    2 verses
    69%

    21 In it I have made a place for the ark, in which is the agreement which the Lord made with our fathers, when he took them out of the land of Egypt.

    22 Then Solomon took his place before the altar of the Lord, all the men of Israel being present, and stretching out his hands to heaven,

  • 2 Chr 5:14
    69%

    14 So that the priests were not able to keep their places to do their work because of the cloud; for the house of God was full of the glory of the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 2:1
    69%

    1 Now it was Solomon's purpose to put up a house for the name of the Lord and a house for himself as king.

  • Ps 139:11-12
    2 verses
    69%

    11 If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

    12 Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.

  • Job 22:13
    68%

    13 And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark?

  • Deut 4:11
    68%

    11 And you came near, waiting at the foot of the mountain; and flames of fire went up from the mountain to the heart of heaven, with dark clouds, and all was black as night.

  • Job 38:19
    68%

    19 Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

  • 2 Chr 1:3
    68%

    3 Then Solomon, and all the men of Israel with him, went to the high place at Gibeon, because the Tent of meeting of God, which Moses, the servant of the Lord, had made in the waste land, was there.

  • 1 Kgs 9:1
    68%

    1 Now when Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house, and all Solomon's desires, which he had in mind were effected;

  • 1 Chr 28:11
    68%

    11 Then David gave to his son Solomon the design of the doorway of the house of God and of its houses and its store-houses, and the higher rooms and the inner rooms and the place for the mercy-seat;

  • Amos 5:20
    68%

    20 Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?

  • Job 10:22
    68%

    22 A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

  • Ps 26:8
    68%

    8 Lord, your house has been dear to me, and the resting-place of your glory.

  • 2 Chr 8:1
    68%

    1 Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the house of the Lord and a house for himself,

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
    68%

    7 He put the image of Asherah which he had made in the house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever.

  • 2 Chr 8:16
    68%

    16 And all the work of Solomon was complete, from the day when he put the base of the Lord's house in position, till Solomon had come to the end of building the Lord's house.

  • 2 Sam 7:5
    67%

    5 Go and say to my servant David, The Lord says, Are you to be the builder of a house, a living-place for me?

  • Ezek 10:4
    67%

    4 And the glory of the Lord went up from the winged ones and came to rest over the doorstep of the house; and the house was full of the cloud and the open square was full of the shining of the Lord's glory.

  • 1 Kgs 6:2
    67%

    2 The house which Solomon made for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.

  • Ezek 32:8
    67%

    8 All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over you, and put dark night on your land, says the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 7:7
    67%

    7 Then he made a covered room for his high seat when he gave decisions; this was the covered room of judging; it was covered with cedar-wood from floor to roof.