2 Chronicles 6:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אָ֖ז אָמַ֣ר שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה יְהוָ֣ה אָמַ֔ר לִשְׁכּ֖וֹן בָּעֲרָפֶֽל׃

Transliteration

Then ʾāmar šəlōmōh: YHWH ʾāmar to šākôn in ʿărāpel.

Grammar Details

• *ʾāz*: adverb - then/at that time
• *ʾāmar*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - said/spoke
• *šəlōmōh*: proper noun, masculine - Solomon
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name - Yahweh/LORD
• *lišəkôn*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - to dwell/abide
• *bāʿărāpel*: preposition + definite noun, masculine singular - in the thick darkness/cloud

Word Meanings

• *ʾāmar*: said/declared/stated
• *šākôn*: to dwell/abide/remain
• *ʿărāpel*: thick darkness/dark cloud/heavy cloud

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

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

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  Then spake{H559} Solomon,{H8010} Jehovah{H3068} hath said{H559} that he would dwell{H7931} in the thick darkness.{H6205}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  Then said{H559}{(H8804)} Solomon{H8010}, The LORD{H3068} hath said{H559}{(H8804)} that he would dwell{H7931}{(H8800)} in the thick darkness{H6205}.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Then sayde Salomon: The LORDE sayde, that he wolde dwell in a darck cloude:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Then Salomon sayd, The Lord hath sayde that he would dwell in the darke cloude:

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Then Solomon sayde: The Lord hath spoken, howe that he wil dwell in the darcke cloude.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ¶ Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Then spoke Solomon, Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Then said Solomon, `Jehovah said -- to dwell in thick darkness,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Then spake Solomon, Jehovah hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Then spake Solomon, Jehovah hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

• 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,

• World English Bible (2000)

  Then Solomon said, "Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Then Solomon said,“The LORD has said that he lives in thick darkness.

Referenced Verses

• Exod 20:21 : 21 So the people stood afar off, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.
• 1 Kgs 8:12-50 : 12 Then Solomon spoke: The LORD said that he would dwell in thick darkness. 13 I have surely built you a house to dwell in, a settled place for you to abide in forever. 14 And the king turned his face around and blessed all the congregation of Israel; (and all the congregation of Israel stood;) 15 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying, 16 Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel. 17 And it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD God of Israel. 18 And the LORD said to David my father, Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart. 19 Nevertheless, you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come from your body, he shall build the house for my name. 20 And the LORD has performed his word that he spoke, and I have risen up in place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built a house for the name of the LORD God of Israel. 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: 23 And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above or on earth beneath, who keeps covenant and mercy with your servants that walk before you with all their heart: 24 Who have kept with your servant David my father what you promised him: you also spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day. 25 Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father what you promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; if only your children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as you have walked before me. 26 And now, O God of Israel, let your word, I pray you, be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father. 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? 28 Yet have respect to the prayer of your servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer, which your servant prays before you today: 29 That your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, My name shall be there: that you may listen to the prayer which your servant shall make toward this place. 30 And listen to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear in heaven your dwelling place: and when you hear, forgive. 31 If any man trespass against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before your altar in this house: 32 Then hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness. 33 When your people Israel are defeated before the enemy, because they have sinned against you, and shall turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray, and make supplication to you in this house: 34 Then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again into the land which you gave to their fathers. 35 When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them: 36 Then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, that you teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance. 37 If there is in the land famine, if there is pestilence, blight, mildew, locust, or if there is caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is; 38 Whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house: 39 Then hear in heaven your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men;) 40 That they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers. 41 Moreover concerning a stranger, who is not of your people Israel, but comes out of a far country for your name's sake; 42 (For they shall hear of your great name, and of your strong hand, and of your outstretched arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house; 43 Hear in heaven your dwelling place, and act according to all that the stranger calls to you for: that all people of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as do your people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have built, is called by your name. 44 If your people go out to battle against their enemy, wherever you shall send them, and shall pray to the LORD toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house that I have built for your name: 45 Then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. 46 If they sin against you, (for there is no man that does not sin,) and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives to the land of the enemy, far or near; 47 Yet if they shall come to themselves in the land where they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness; 48 And so return to you with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, who led them away captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name: 49 Then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven your dwelling place, and maintain their cause, 50 And forgive your people that have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you, and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:
• 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,
• 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.
• Ps 97:2 : 2 Clouds and darkness surround him: righteousness and judgment are the foundation of his throne.
• Nah 1:3 : 3 The LORD is slow to anger and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
• Exod 24:15-18 : 15 And Moses went up into the mountain, and a cloud covered the mountain. 16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel. 18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and went up into the mountain: and Moses was in the mountain forty days and forty nights.
• 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.
• 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.