1 Kings 8:12

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Ps 97:2 : 2 Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
  • Lev 16:2 : 2 and Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron your brother, not to come at all times into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die: for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.
  • 2 Chr 6:1-9 : 1 Then Solomon said, "Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. 2 But I have built you a house of habitation, and a place for you to dwell in forever." 3 The king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: and all the assembly of Israel stood. 4 He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my father, and has with his hands fulfilled it, saying, 5 'Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be prince 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 Yahweh, the God of Israel. 8 But Yahweh 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: 9 nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.' 10 "Yahweh has performed his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. 11 There I have set the ark, in which is the covenant of Yahweh, which he made with the children of Israel."
  • Isa 45:15 : 15 Most certainly you are a God who hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.'"
  • Heb 12:18 : 18 For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,
  • Exod 20:21 : 21 The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.
  • Ps 18:8-9 : 8 Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it. 9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet. 10 He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind. 11 He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
  • Deut 4:11 : 11 You came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
  • Deut 5:22 : 22 These words Yahweh spoke to all your assembly on the mountain out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. He wrote them on two tables of stone, and gave them to me.

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

    2 But I have built you a house of habitation, and a place for you to dwell in forever."

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

  • 1 Kgs 8:10-11
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    10 It came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of Yahweh,

    11 so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh.

  • 2 Chr 7:12
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    12 Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, "I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.

  • 1 Kgs 6:11-13
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    11 The word of Yahweh came to Solomon, saying,

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

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

  • 2 Sam 22:12
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    12 He made darkness pavilions around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

  • Ps 18:11
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    11 He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

  • Ps 97:2
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    2 Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

  • 1 Kgs 8:27
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    27 But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't 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 Solomon said to God, "You have shown great loving kindness to David my father, and have made me king in his place.

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    18 "But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't 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 made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of Yahweh filled the house.

    2 The priests could not enter into the house of Yahweh, because the glory of Yahweh filled Yahweh's house.

  • 1 Kgs 9:3
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    3 Yahweh said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, 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 Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David to the house that he had built for her; for he said, "My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places where the ark of Yahweh has come are holy."

    12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of Yahweh, 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 commanded him to build a house for Yahweh, the God of Israel.

    7 David said to Solomon his son, "As for me, it was in my heart to build a house to the name of Yahweh my God.

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    22 he reveals the 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 They lived 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 Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

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    21 There I have set a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of Yahweh, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt."

    22 Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the assembly 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 by reason of the cloud: for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of God.

  • 2 Chr 2:1
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    1 Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.

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    12 even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

  • Job 22:13
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    13 You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

  • Deut 4:11
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    11 You came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.

  • Job 38:19
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    19 "What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

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

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    1 It happened, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Yahweh, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,

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    11 Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch [of the temple], and of its houses, and of its treasuries, and of the upper rooms of it, and of the inner rooms of it, and of the place of the mercy seat;

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    20 Won't the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

  • Job 10:22
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    22 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"

  • Ps 26:8
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    8 Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.

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    1 It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of Yahweh, and his own house,

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    7 He set the engraved image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which Yahweh 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, will I put my name forever;

  • 2 Chr 8:16
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    16 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared to the day of the foundation of the house of Yahweh, and until it was finished. [So] the house of Yahweh was completed.

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

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    4 The glory of Yahweh mounted 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 Yahweh's glory.

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    2 The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh, its length was sixty cubits, and its breadth twenty [cubits], and its height thirty cubits.

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    8 All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says the Lord Yahweh.

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    7 He made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor.