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1 Kings 8

1 Kings 8:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thenc spake
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
Solomon
Shlomoh (Hebrew #8010)
peaceful; Shelomah, David's successor
KJV usage: Solomon.
Pronounce: shel-o-mo'
Origin: from 7965
, The Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
that he would dwell
shakan (Hebrew #7931)
to reside or permanently stay (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: abide, continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-er), have habitation, inhabit, lay, place, (cause to) remain, rest, set (up).
Pronounce: shaw-kan'
Origin: a primitive root (apparently akin (by transmission) to 7901 through the idea of lodging; compare 5531, 7925)
in the thick darkness
`araphel (Hebrew #6205)
gloom (as of a lowering sky)
KJV usage: (gross, thick) dark (cloud, -ness).
Pronounce: ar-aw-fel'
Origin: probably from 6201
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1 Kings 6•  (1 Kings 6)
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Psa. 97:2• 2Cloud and darkness [are] around him,{HR}Righteousness and judgment the foundation of his throne. (Psa. 97:2)
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Isa. 45:15• 15Verily thou [art] a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour. (Isa. 45:15)

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Ministry on This Verse

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The Lord.
Deut. 4:11• 11Ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire in the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness. (Deut. 4:11)
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2 Chron. 6:1,2‑11• 1Then said Solomon: Jehovah said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
 2But I have built a house of habitation for thee, even a settled place for thee to abide in forever.
 3The king turned his face and blessed the whole congregation of Israel; and the whole congregation of Israel stood.
 4And he said, Blessed [be] Jehovah God of Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled [that] which he spake with his mouth to my father David, saying,
 5Since 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:
 6but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
 7And it was in the heart of David my father to build a house unto the name of Jehovah the God of Israel.
 8But Jehovah said to David my father, Whereas it was in thy heart to build a house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thy heart;
 9nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.
 10And Jehovah has performed his word which he spoke; and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah promised, and I have built the house unto the name of Jehovah the God of Israel.
 11And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of Jehovah, which he made with the children of Israel. (2 Chron. 6:1,2‑11)
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Psa. 18:8‑11• 8There went up a smoke in his anger,{HR}And fire from his mouth devoureth;{HR}Coals were kindled by it.
 9And he boweth the heavens and cometh down,{HR}And darkness [is] under his feet.
 10And he rideth upon a cherub and flieth,{HR}Yea, he flieth upon the wings of the wind.
 11He maketh darkness his covering,{HR}His tent round about him,{HR}Darkness of waters,{HR}Thick clouds of the skies. (Psa. 18:8‑11)
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Psa. 97:2• 2Cloud and darkness [are] around him,{HR}Righteousness and judgment the foundation of his throne. (Psa. 97:2)
the thick.
Ex. 20:21• 21And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near to the obscurity where God was. (Ex. 20:21)
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Lev. 16:2• 2and Jehovah said to Moses, Speak to Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the sanctuary within the veil before the mercy-seat which [is] upon the ark, that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy-seat. (Lev. 16:2)
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Deut. 5:22• 22These words Jehovah spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me. (Deut. 5:22)
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Isa. 45:15• 15Verily thou [art] a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour. (Isa. 45:15)
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Heb. 12:18• 18For ye have not approached to a palpable thing and all aglow with fire, and to obscurity and gloom and tempest, (Heb. 12:18)
• The dispensation of the temple at Jerusalem was the same as that of the tabernacle. The veil, even if it is not mentioned here, subsists nonetheless (2 Chron. 3:14). (“The Dedication of the Temple: 1 Kings 8” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Then said Solomon: Jehovah said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

W. Kelly Translation

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Then said Solomon: Jehovah said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)