1 Kings 8:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Then said Solomon, `Jehovah hath said to dwell in thick darkness;

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  • Ps 97:2 : 2 Cloud and darkness `are' round about Him, Righteousness and judgment the basis of His throne.
  • Lev 16:2 : 2 yea, Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Speak unto Aaron thy brother, and he cometh not in at all times unto the sanctuary within the vail, unto the front of the mercy-seat, which `is' upon the ark, and he dieth not, for in a cloud I am seen upon the mercy-seat.
  • 2 Chr 6:1-9 : 1 Then said Solomon, `Jehovah said -- to dwell in thick darkness, 2 and I -- I have built a house of habitation for Thee, and a fixed place for Thy dwelling to the ages.' 3 And the king turneth round his face, and blesseth the whole assembly of Israel, and the whole assembly of Israel is standing, 4 and he saith, `Blessed `is' Jehovah, God of Israel, who hath spoken with His mouth with David my father, and with His hands hath fulfilled `it', saying: 5 `From the day that I brought out My people from the land of Egypt, I have not fixed on a city out of any of the tribes of Israel to build a house for my name being there, and I have not fixed on a man to be leader over My people Israel; 6 and I fix on Jerusalem for My name being there, and I fix on David to be over My people Israel. 7 `And it is with the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Jehovah God of Israel, 8 and Jehovah saith unto David my father, Because that it hath been with thy heart to build a house for My name, thou hast done well that it hath been with thy heart, 9 but thou dost not build the house, for thy son who cometh forth out from thy loins, he doth build the house for My name. 10 `And Jehovah doth establish His word that He spake, and I rise up in the stead of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah spake, and I build the house for the name of Jehovah, God of Israel, 11 and I place there the ark, where `is' the covenant of Jehovah that He made with the sons of Israel.'
  • Isa 45:15 : 15 Surely Thou `art' a God hiding Thyself, God of Israel -- Saviour!
  • Heb 12:18 : 18 For ye came not near to the mount touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
  • Exod 20:21 : 21 And the people stand afar off, and Moses hath drawn nigh unto the thick darkness where God `is'.
  • Ps 18:8-9 : 8 Gone up hath smoke by His nostrils, And fire from His mouth consumeth, Coals have been kindled by it. 9 And He inclineth the heavens, and cometh down, And thick darkness `is' under His feet. 10 And He rideth on a cherub, and doth fly, And He flieth on wings of wind. 11 He maketh darkness His secret place, Round about Him His tabernacle, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
  • Deut 4:11 : 11 and ye draw near and stand under the mountain, and the mountain is burning with fire unto the heart of the heavens -- darkness, cloud, yea, thick darkness:
  • Deut 5:22 : 22 `These words hath Jehovah spoken unto all your assembly, in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness -- a great voice; and He hath not added, and He writeth them on two tables of stone, and giveth them unto me.

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  • 2 Chr 6:1-2
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    95%

    1Then said Solomon, `Jehovah said -- to dwell in thick darkness,

    2and I -- I have built a house of habitation for Thee, and a fixed place for Thy dwelling to the ages.'

  • 1 Kgs 8:13
    78%

    13I have surely built a house of habitation for Thee; a fixed place for Thine abiding to the ages.'

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

    10And it cometh to pass, in the going out of the priests from the holy `place', that the cloud hath filled the house of Jehovah,

    11and the priests have not been able to stand to minister because of the cloud, for the honour of Jehovah hath filled the house of Jehovah.

  • 2 Chr 7:12
    75%

    12And Jehovah appeareth unto Solomon by night, and saith to him, `I have heard thy prayer, and have fixed on this place to Me for a house of sacrifice.

  • 1 Kgs 6:11-13
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    11And the word of Jehovah is unto Solomon, saying,

    12`This house that thou art building -- if thou dost walk in My statutes, and My judgments dost do, yea, hast done all My commands, to walk in them, then I have established My word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father,

    13and have tabernacled in the midst of the sons of Israel, and do not forsake My people Israel.'

  • 2 Sam 22:12
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    12And He setteth darkness Round about Him -- tabernacles, Darkness of waters -- thick clouds of the skies.

  • Ps 18:11
    72%

    11He maketh darkness His secret place, Round about Him His tabernacle, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

  • Ps 97:2
    71%

    2Cloud and darkness `are' round about Him, Righteousness and judgment the basis of His throne.

  • 1 Kgs 8:27
    71%

    27But, is it true? -- God dwelleth on the earth! lo, the heavens, and the heavens of the heavens do not contain Thee, how much less this house which I have builded!

  • Acts 7:47
    71%

    47and Solomon built Him an house.

  • 2 Chr 1:7-8
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    7In that night hath God appeared to Solomon, and saith to him, `Ask -- what do I give to thee?'

    8And Solomon saith to God, `Thou hast done with David my father great kindness, and hast caused me to reign in his stead.

  • 2 Chr 6:18
    70%

    18(for is it true? -- God dwelleth with man on the earth! Lo, the heavens, and the heavens of the heavens, do not contain Thee, how much less this house that I have built?)

  • 2 Chr 7:1-2
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    70%

    1And at Solomon's finishing to pray, then the fire hath come down from the heavens, and consumeth the burnt-offering and the sacrifices, and the honour of Jehovah hath filled the house,

    2and the priests have not been able to go in unto the house of Jehovah, because the honour of Jehovah hath filled the house of Jehovah.

  • 1 Kgs 9:3
    70%

    3and Jehovah saith unto him, `I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication with which thou hast made supplication before Me; I have hallowed this house that thou hast built to put My name there -- unto the age, and Mine eyes and My heart have been there all the days.

  • 2 Chr 8:11-12
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    70%

    11And the daughter of Pharaoh hath Solomon brought up from the city of David to the house that he built for her, for he said, `My wife doth not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, for they are holy unto whom hath come the ark of Jehovah.'

    12Then hath Solomon caused to ascend burnt-offerings to Jehovah on the altar of Jehovah that he built before the porch,

  • 1 Chr 22:6-7
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    6And he calleth for Solomon his son, and chargeth him to build a house to Jehovah, God of Israel,

    7and David saith to Solomon his son, `As for me, it hath been with my heart to build a house to the name of Jehovah my God,

  • Dan 2:22
    69%

    22He is revealing deep and hidden things; He hath known what `is' in darkness, and light with Him hath dwelt.

  • 2 Chr 20:8
    69%

    8and they dwell in it, and build to Thee in it a sanctuary for Thy name, saying,

  • Jer 13:16
    69%

    16Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed `it' for thick darkness.

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

    21and set there a place for the ark, where `is' the covenant of Jehovah which He made with our fathers in His bringing them out from the land of Egypt.'

    22And Solomon standeth before the altar of Jehovah, over-against all the assembly of Israel, and spreadeth his hands towards the heavens,

  • 2 Chr 5:14
    69%

    14and the priests have not been able to stand to minister from the presence of the cloud, for the honour of Jehovah hath filled the house of God.

  • 2 Chr 2:1
    69%

    1And Solomon saith to build a house for the name of Jehovah, and a house for his kingdom,

  • Ps 139:11-12
    2 verses
    69%

    11And I say, `Surely darkness bruiseth me, Then night `is' light to me.

    12Also darkness hideth not from Thee, And night as day shineth, as `is' darkness so `is' light.

  • Job 22:13
    68%

    13And thou hast said, `What -- hath God known? Through thickness doth He judge?

  • Deut 4:11
    68%

    11and ye draw near and stand under the mountain, and the mountain is burning with fire unto the heart of the heavens -- darkness, cloud, yea, thick darkness:

  • Job 38:19
    68%

    19Where `is' this -- the way light dwelleth? And darkness, where `is' this -- its place?

  • 2 Chr 1:3
    68%

    3and they go -- Solomon, and all the assembly with him -- to the high place that `is' in Gibeon, for there hath been God's tent of meeting, that Moses, servant of Jehovah, made in the wilderness,

  • 1 Kgs 9:1
    68%

    1And it cometh to pass, at Solomon's finishing to build the house of Jehovah, and the house of the king, and all the desire of Solomon that he delighted to do,

  • 1 Chr 28:11
    68%

    11And David giveth to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of its houses, and of its treasures, and of its upper chambers, and of its innermost chambers, and of the house of the atonement;

  • Amos 5:20
    68%

    20Is not the day of Jehovah darkness and not light, Even thick darkness that hath no brightness?

  • Job 10:22
    68%

    22A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade -- and no order, And the shining `is' as thick darkness.'

  • Ps 26:8
    68%

    8Jehovah, I have loved the habitation of Thy house, And the place of the tabernacle of Thine honour.

  • 2 Chr 8:1
    68%

    1And it cometh to pass, at the end of twenty years, that Solomon hath built the house of Jehovah, and his own house.

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
    68%

    7And he setteth the graven image of the shrine that he made in the house of which Jehovah said unto David and unto Solomon his son, `In this house, and in Jerusalem, that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I put My name -- to the age;

  • 2 Chr 8:16
    68%

    16And all the work of Solomon is prepared till the day of the foundation of the house of Jehovah, and till its completion; perfect is the house of Jehovah.

  • 2 Sam 7:5
    67%

    5`Go, and thou hast said unto My servant, unto David, Thus said Jehovah, Dost thou build for Me a house for My dwelling in?

  • Ezek 10:4
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    4and become high doth the honour of Jehovah above the cherub, over the threshold of the house, and the house is filled with the cloud, and the court hath been filled with the brightness of the honour of Jehovah.

  • 1 Kgs 6:2
    67%

    2As to the house that king Solomon hath built for Jehovah, sixty cubits `is' its length, and twenty its breadth, and thirty cubits its height.

  • Ezek 32:8
    67%

    8All luminaries of light in the heavens, I make black over thee, And I have given darkness over thy land, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah,

  • 1 Kgs 7:7
    67%

    7And the porch of the throne where he judgeth -- the porch of judgment -- he hath made, and `it is' covered with cedar from the floor unto the floor.