1 Kings 8:12

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Then Solomon said, 'The LORD has said that He would dwell in thick darkness.'

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  • Ps 97:2 : 2 Clouds and thick darkness surround Him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.
  • Lev 16:2 : 2 The LORD said to Moses, "Tell your brother Aaron that he must not come at any time into the Most Holy Place behind the curtain, in front of the atonement cover on the ark, or he will die, because I appear in the cloud above the atonement cover.
  • 2 Chr 6:1-9 : 1 Then Solomon said, 'The LORD has said that He would dwell in thick darkness.' 2 And I have built a lofty house for You, a place for You to dwell forever. 3 Then the king turned around and blessed the entire assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel stood. 4 He said, 'Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who spoke with His mouth to my father David and has fulfilled it with His hands, saying: 5 'From the day I brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city from any of the tribes of Israel to build a house for My name to be there, nor did I choose any man to be a ruler over My people Israel. 6 But I have chosen Jerusalem for My name to be there, and I have chosen David to rule over My people Israel.' 7 Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. 8 But the LORD said to my father David, 'Because it was in your heart to build a house for My name, you did well to have this desire in your heart. 9 However, you shall not build the house; instead, your son, who will come from your body, he shall build the house for My name.' 10 The LORD has fulfilled the word that He spoke, and I have taken the place of my father David and now sit on the throne of Israel, just as the LORD promised. I have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. 11 And there I have placed the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD that He made with the people of Israel.
  • Isa 45:15 : 15 Truly, you are a God who hides Himself, O God of Israel, the Savior.
  • Heb 12:18 : 18 For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched, that is burning with fire, to darkness, gloom, and a storm,
  • Exod 20:21 : 21 The people remained at a distance, while Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.
  • Ps 18:8-9 : 8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because He was angry. 9 Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; burning coals blazed forth from Him. 10 He parted the heavens and came down; dark clouds were under His feet. 11 He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.
  • Deut 4:11 : 11 You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire up to the very heavens, with darkness, cloud, and thick gloom.
  • Deut 5:22 : 22 These are the words the LORD spoke to your entire assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the profound darkness, with a loud voice. He added no more, and He wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 6:1-2
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    1Then Solomon said, 'The LORD has said that He would dwell in thick darkness.'

    2And I have built a lofty house for You, a place for You to dwell forever.

  • 1 Kgs 8:13
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    13I have indeed built a high and exalted house for You, a place where You may dwell forever.

  • 1 Kgs 8:10-11
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    10When the priests withdrew from the holy place, the cloud filled the house of the LORD.

    11The priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 7:12
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    12Then the LORD appeared to Solomon at night and said to him: "I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.

  • 1 Kgs 6:11-13
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    11Then the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying:

    12Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and carry out my ordinances, and keep all my commandments by walking in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.

    13And I will dwell among the people of Israel and will not forsake my people Israel.

  • 2 Sam 22:12
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    12He made darkness his covering around him, dense clouds of water and thick clouds of the skies.

  • Ps 18:11
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    11He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.

  • Ps 97:2
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    2Clouds and thick darkness surround Him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.

  • 1 Kgs 8:27
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    27'But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Even the heavens, the highest heavens, cannot contain You. How much less this house that I have built!'

  • Acts 7:47
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    47But it was Solomon who built Him a house.

  • 2 Chr 1:7-8
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    7That night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, "Ask for whatever you want me to give you."

    8Solomon replied to God, "You have shown great lovingkindness to my father David and have made me king in his place.

  • 2 Chr 6:18
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    18'But will God indeed dwell with mankind on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heavens cannot contain You, much less this house that I have built!

  • 2 Chr 7:1-2
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    1When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.

    2The priests could not enter the Temple of the LORD because the glory of the LORD filled it.

  • 1 Kgs 9:3
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    3The LORD said to him, 'I have heard your prayer and your plea that you made before Me. I have consecrated this temple you have built by putting My name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will always be there.'

  • 2 Chr 8:11-12
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    11Solomon brought Pharaoh’s daughter up from the City of David to the house he had built for her, for he said, 'My wife must not live in the palace of King David of Israel, because the places have become holy where the ark of the Lord has entered.'

    12At that time Solomon offered burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord that he had constructed in front of the portico.

  • 1 Chr 22:6-7
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    6Then he called for his son Solomon and instructed him to build a house for the Lord, the God of Israel.

    7David said to Solomon, 'My son, it was in my heart to build a house for the name of the Lord my God.'

  • Dan 2:22
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    22He reveals deep and hidden things; He knows what is in the darkness, and light dwells with Him.

  • 2 Chr 20:8
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    8They have lived in it and have built in it a sanctuary for your name, saying,

  • Jer 13:16
    69%

    16Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, and before your feet stumble on the darkening mountains. You hope for light, but He will turn it to gloom and thick darkness.

  • 1 Kgs 8:21-22
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    21And there I have placed a place for the Ark, which contains the covenant of the LORD that He made with our ancestors when He brought them out of Egypt.

    22Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven.

  • 2 Chr 5:14
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    14and the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.

  • 2 Chr 2:1
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    1Solomon assigned seventy thousand men to carry burdens, eighty thousand men to cut stone in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred supervisors to oversee them.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    11If I say, 'Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,'

    12even the darkness will not be dark to You; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to You.

  • Job 22:13
    68%

    13But you say, 'What does God know? Can He judge through such thick darkness?'

  • Deut 4:11
    68%

    11You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire up to the very heavens, with darkness, cloud, and thick gloom.

  • Job 38:19
    68%

    19Where is the way that light dwells, and where is the place of darkness,

  • 2 Chr 1:3
    68%

    3Then Solomon and the whole assembly went to the high place at Gibeon, because God's tent of meeting, which Moses, the servant of the Lord, had made in the wilderness, was there.

  • 1 Kgs 9:1
    68%

    1When Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and everything he desired to accomplish,

  • 1 Chr 28:11
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    11Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the portico of the temple, its buildings, its storerooms, its upper rooms, its inner rooms, and the room for the mercy seat.

  • Amos 5:20
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    20Won’t the day of the Lord be darkness and not light, gloom with no brightness in it?

  • Job 10:22
    68%

    22A land of gloom like deep darkness, a land of shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.

  • Ps 26:8
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    8Lord, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.

  • 2 Chr 8:1
    68%

    1After twenty years during which Solomon built the house of the Lord and his own house,

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
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    7He placed the carved Asherah image he had made in the house about which the LORD had said to David and to Solomon his son: 'In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever.

  • 2 Chr 8:16
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    16So all of Solomon’s work was carried out until the day the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid and until it was completed. The house of the Lord was finished perfectly.

  • 2 Sam 7:5
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    5"Go and tell my servant David, 'Thus says the LORD: Is it you who would build me a house to dwell in?

  • Ezek 10:4
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    4Then the glory of the Lord rose up from above the cherub and moved to the threshold of the temple. The temple was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightness of the Lord's glory.

  • 1 Kgs 6:2
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    2The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

  • Ezek 32:8
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    8All the shining lights in the sky I will darken over you, and I will bring darkness over your land, declares the Lord GOD.

  • 1 Kgs 7:7
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    7He also made the Hall of the Throne, known as the Hall of Judgment, where he would judge. It was paneled with cedar from the floor to the ceiling.