1 Kings 8:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

Then Solomon spoke: The LORD said that he would dwell in thick darkness.

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  • Ps 97:2 : 2 Clouds and darkness surround him: righteousness and judgment are the foundation of his throne.
  • Lev 16:2 : 2 And the LORD said to Moses, Speak to Aaron your brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the veil before the mercy seat, which is on the ark; that he not die: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.
  • 2 Chr 6:1-9 : 1 Then Solomon said, The LORD has said that he would dwell in thick darkness. 2 But I have built a house of habitation for you, and a place for your dwelling forever. 3 And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel; and all the congregation of Israel stood. 4 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who has with his hands fulfilled what he spoke with his mouth to my father David, saying, 5 Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel: 6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel. 7 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD God of Israel. 8 But the LORD said to David my father, Because it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well in that it was in your heart: 9 Nevertheless, you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come from your loins, he shall build the house for my name. 10 The LORD therefore has performed his word that he has spoken; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel. 11 And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.
  • Isa 45:15 : 15 Truly You are a God who hides Yourself, O God of Israel, the Savior.
  • Heb 12:18 : 18 For you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest,
  • Exod 20:21 : 21 So the people stood afar off, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.
  • Ps 18:8-9 : 8 Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth: coals were kindled by it. 9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet. 10 And he rode upon a cherub, and flew: yea, he flew upon the wings of the wind. 11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion around him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
  • Deut 4:11 : 11 And you came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
  • Deut 5:22 : 22 These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly on the mountain out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a great voice: and He added no more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone, and delivered them to me.

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

    2 But I have built a house of habitation for you, and a place for your dwelling forever.

  • 1 Kgs 8:13
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    13 I have surely built you a house to dwell in, a settled place for you to abide in forever.

  • 1 Kgs 8:10-11
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    10 And it came to pass, when the priests came out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD,

    11 So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 7:12
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    12 And the LORD appeared to Solomon by 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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    11 And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,

    12 As for this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and execute my judgments and keep all my commandments to walk in them, then I will fulfill my word with you, which I spoke to David your father:

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

  • 2 Sam 22:12
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    12 And he made darkness canopies around him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

  • Ps 18:11
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    11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion around him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

  • Ps 97:2
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    2 Clouds and darkness surround him: righteousness and judgment are the foundation of his throne.

  • 1 Kgs 8:27
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    27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built?

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

  • 2 Chr 1:7-8
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    7 In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, Ask what I shall give you.

    8 And Solomon said to God, You have shown great mercy to David my father, and have made me to reign in his place.

  • 2 Chr 6:18
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    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!

  • 2 Chr 7:1-2
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    1 Now when Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.

    2 And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD's house.

  • 1 Kgs 9:3
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    3 And the LORD said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before Me: I have hallowed this house, which you have built, to put My name there forever; and My eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.

  • 2 Chr 8:11-12
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    11 And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David to the house he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD has come.

    12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,

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

    7 And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build a house unto the name of the LORD my God:

  • Dan 2:22
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    22 He reveals deep and secret things: he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

  • 2 Chr 20:8
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    8 And they dwelt in it, and have built You a sanctuary in it for Your name, saying,

  • Jer 13:16
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    16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

  • 1 Kgs 8:21-22
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    21 And I have set there a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

    22 And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:

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

  • 2 Chr 2:1
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    1 And Solomon resolved to build a house for the name of the LORD, and a house for his kingdom.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

    12 Yes, the darkness does not hide from You, but the night shines as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to You.

  • Job 22:13
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    13 And you say, 'How does God know? Can He judge through the dense cloud?

  • Deut 4:11
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    11 And you came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.

  • Job 38:19
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    19 Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is its place,

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    3 So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.

  • 1 Kgs 9:1
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    1 And it happened, when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desires which he was pleased to do,

  • 1 Chr 28:11
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    11 Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the buildings thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner rooms thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat,

  • Amos 5:20
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    20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, with no brightness in it?

  • Job 10:22
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    22 A land of darkness, like darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

  • Ps 26:8
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    8 LORD, I have loved the habitation of Your house and the place where Your honor dwells.

  • 2 Chr 8:1
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    1 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, during which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own house,

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

  • 2 Chr 8:16
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    16 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared from the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was completed.

  • 2 Sam 7:5
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    5 Go and tell my servant David, Thus says the LORD, Shall you build me a house for me to dwell in?

  • Ezek 10:4
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    4 Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD's glory.

  • 1 Kgs 6:2
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    2 And the house which King Solomon built for the LORD, its length was sixty cubits, and its width twenty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

  • Ezek 32:8
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    8 All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness upon your land, says the Lord GOD.

  • 1 Kgs 7:7
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    7 Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment, and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.