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1 Kings 8

1 Kings 8:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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There was nothing in the ark
'arown (Hebrew #727)
from 717 (in the sense of gathering); a box
KJV usage: ark, chest, coffin.
Pronounce: aw-rone'
Origin: or laron {aw-rone'}
save
raq (Hebrew #7535)
properly, leanness, i.e. (figuratively) limitation; only adverbial, merely, or conjunctional, although
KJV usage: but, even, except, howbeit howsoever, at the least, nevertheless, nothing but, notwithstanding, only, save, so (that), surely, yet (so), in any wise.
Pronounce: rak
Origin: the same as 7534 as a noun
the two
shnayim (Hebrew #8147)
feminine shttayim {shet-tah'-yim}; two; also (as ordinal) twofold
KJV usage: both, couple, double, second, twain, + twelfth, + twelve, + twenty (sixscore) thousand, twice, two.
Pronounce: shen-ah'-yim
Origin: dual of 8145
tables
luwach (Hebrew #3871)
from a primitive root; probably meaning to glisten; a tablet (as polished), of stone, wood or metal
KJV usage: board, plate, table.
Pronounce: loo'-akh
Origin: or luach {loo'-akh}
of stone
'eben (Hebrew #68)
a stone
KJV usage: + carbuncle, + mason, + plummet, (chalk-, hail-, head-, sling-)stone(-ny), (divers) weight(-s).
Pronounce: eh'-ben
Origin: from the root of 1129 through the meaning to build
, which Moses
Mosheh (Hebrew #4872)
drawing out (of the water), i.e. rescued; Mosheh, the Israelite lawgiver
KJV usage: Moses.
Pronounce: mo-sheh'
Origin: from 4871
put
yanach (Hebrew #3240)
to deposit; by implication, to allow to stay
KJV usage: bestow, cast down, lay (down, up), leave (off), let alone (remain), pacify, place, put, set (down), suffer, withdraw, withhold. (The Hiphil forms with the dagesh are here referred to, in accordance with the older grammarians; but if any distinction of the kind is to be made, these should rather be referred to 5117, and the others here.)
Pronounce: yaw-nakh'
Origin: a primitive root
therek at Horeb
Choreb (Hebrew #2722)
desolate; Choreb, a (generic) name for the Sinaitic mountains
KJV usage: Horeb.
Pronounce: kho-rabe'
Origin: from 2717
, ρwhen 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
made
karath (Hebrew #3772)
to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces)
KJV usage: be chewed, be con-(feder-)ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league ((covenant)), X lose, perish, X utterly, X want.
Pronounce: kaw-rath'
Origin: a primitive root
a covenantl with the children
ben (Hebrew #1121)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.))
KJV usage: + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: from {SI 11129}1129{/SI}
of Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
, when they came out
yatsa' (Hebrew #3318)
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
KJV usage: X after, appear, X assuredly, bear out, X begotten, break out, bring forth (out, up), carry out, come (abroad, out, thereat, without), + be condemned, depart(-ing, -ure), draw forth, in the end, escape, exact, fail, fall (out), fetch forth (out), get away (forth, hence, out), (able to, cause to, let) go abroad (forth, on, out), going out, grow, have forth (out), issue out, lay (lie) out, lead out, pluck out, proceed, pull out, put away, be risen, X scarce, send with commandment, shoot forth, spread, spring out, stand out, X still, X surely, take forth (out), at any time, X to (and fro), utter.
Pronounce: yaw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
of the land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
of Egypt
Mitsrayim (Hebrew #4714)
Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt
KJV usage: Egypt, Egyptians, Mizraim.
Pronounce: mits-rah'-yim
Origin: dual of 4693
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Ex. 25:21• 21And thou shalt put the mercy-seat above on the ark, and shalt put in the ark the testimony that I shall give thee. (Ex. 25:21)
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Ex. 40:20• 20And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and put the staves in the ark, and put the mercy-seat above on the ark. (Ex. 40:20)
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Deut. 10:2,5• 2and I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which thou didst break, and thou shalt lay them in the ark.
 5And I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tables in the ark which I had made;--and they are there, as Jehovah commanded me. (Deut. 10:2,5)
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Heb. 9:4• 4having a golden censer, and the ark of the covenant, covered round in every part with gold, in which were the golden pot that had the manna, and the rod of Aaron that had sprouted, and the tables of the covenant; (Heb. 9:4)
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or, where.
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Ex. 34:27‑28• 27And Jehovah said to Moses, Write thee these words; for after the tenor of these words have I made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
 28--And he was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; he ate no bread, and drank no water.--And he wrote on the tables the words of the covenant, the ten words. (Ex. 34:27‑28)

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Covenant,
Egypt,
Horeb,
Israel,
Moses,
Stones,
Table

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nothing.
Ex. 25:21• 21And thou shalt put the mercy-seat above on the ark, and shalt put in the ark the testimony that I shall give thee. (Ex. 25:21)
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Deut. 10:2• 2and I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which thou didst break, and thou shalt lay them in the ark. (Deut. 10:2)
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2 Chron. 5:10• 10There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put there at Horeb, when Jehovah made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt. (2 Chron. 5:10)
in the ark.
Ex. 16:33• 33And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot, and put in it an omer full of manna, and deposit it before Jehovah, to be kept for your generations. (Ex. 16:33)
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Num. 17:10• 10And Jehovah said to Moses, Bring Aaron's staff again before the testimony, to be kept as a token for the sons of rebellion, that thou mayest put an end to their murmurings before me, that they may not die. (Num. 17:10)
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Heb. 9:4• 4having a golden censer, and the ark of the covenant, covered round in every part with gold, in which were the golden pot that had the manna, and the rod of Aaron that had sprouted, and the tables of the covenant; (Heb. 9:4)
put there at Horeb.
Ex. 25:21• 21And thou shalt put the mercy-seat above on the ark, and shalt put in the ark the testimony that I shall give thee. (Ex. 25:21)
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Ex. 40:20• 20And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and put the staves in the ark, and put the mercy-seat above on the ark. (Ex. 40:20)
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Deut. 10:2,5• 2and I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which thou didst break, and thou shalt lay them in the ark.
 5And I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tables in the ark which I had made;--and they are there, as Jehovah commanded me. (Deut. 10:2,5)
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Deut. 31:26• 26Take this book of the law, and put it at the side of the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee; (Deut. 31:26)
when.
or, where.
1 Kings 8:21• 21And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of Jehovah, which he made with our fathers when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. (1 Kings 8:21)
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Ex. 24:8• 8And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant that Jehovah has made with you concerning all these words. (Ex. 24:8)
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Ex. 34:27‑28• 27And Jehovah said to Moses, Write thee these words; for after the tenor of these words have I made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
 28--And he was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; he ate no bread, and drank no water.--And he wrote on the tables the words of the covenant, the ten words. (Ex. 34:27‑28)
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Deut. 4:13• 13And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to do, the ten words; and he wrote them on two tables of stone. (Deut. 4:13)
the cloud.
Ex. 13:21• 21And Jehovah went before their face by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them in the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; so that they could go day and night. (Ex. 13:21)
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Ex. 14:24• 24And it came to pass in the morning watch, that Jehovah looked upon the camp of the Egyptians, in the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and embarrassed the camp of the Egyptians. (Ex. 14:24)
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Ex. 16:10• 10And it came to pass, when Aaron spoke to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, that they turned toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of Jehovah appeared in the cloud. (Ex. 16:10)
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Ex. 24:16‑18• 16And the glory of Jehovah abode on mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days; and on the seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
 17And the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain, before the eyes of the children of Israel.
 18And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and ascended the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights. (Ex. 24:16‑18)
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Ex. 40:34‑35• 34And the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of Jehovah filled the tabernacle.
 35And Moses could not enter into the tent of meeting, for the cloud abode on it, and the glory of Jehovah filled the tabernacle. (Ex. 40:34‑35)
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Lev. 16:2• 2and Jehovah said to Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the sanctuary inside 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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Num. 9:15• 15And on the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle of the tent of testimony; and at even it was upon the tabernacle as the appearance of fire, until the morning. (Num. 9:15)
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2 Chron. 5:13‑14• 13--it came to pass when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one voice to be heard in praising and thanking Jehovah; and when they lifted up their voice with trumpets, and cymbals, and instruments of music, and praised Jehovah: For he is good, for his loving-kindness endureth for ever; that then the house, the house of Jehovah, was filled with a cloud,
 14and the priests could not stand to do their service because of the cloud; for the glory of Jehovah had filled the house of God. (2 Chron. 5:13‑14)
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2 Chron. 7:1‑3• 1And when Solomon had ended praying, the fire came down from the heavens and consumed the burnt-offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of Jehovah filled the house.
 2And the priests could not enter into the house of Jehovah, because the glory of Jehovah filled Jehovah's house.
 3And all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of Jehovah upon the house, and bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, and worshipped and thanked Jehovah: For he is good, for his loving-kindness endureth for ever. (2 Chron. 7:1‑3)
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Ezek. 10:4• 4And the glory of Jehovah mounted up from the cherub, and came over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of Jehovah's glory. (Ezek. 10:4)
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Rev. 15:8• 8And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power: and no one could enter into the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed. (Rev. 15:8)
• The golden pot containing the manna and Aaron’s rod that budded were no longer found in the ark at that moment when Solomon brought it into the temple of God (1 Kings 8:9; cf. Heb. 9:4)....These two objects, the manna and the rod, will no longer be necessary in the millennial reign, as we see here in type. The covenant shall be kept, God being the sole contracting party; the priesthood will have Melchizedek, no longer Aaron, as its model, and its function will be to bless. The glory of Christ the Man instead of being hidden in the sanctuary will be manifested to all eyes in the person of the true Solomon. (“The Dedication of the Temple: 1 Kings 8” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone which Moses placed there at Horeb, when Jehovah made a covenant withc the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "... at Horeb, [the covenant] which Jehovah made with"; and so 2 Chron. 5.10. see ver. 21.