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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• 2Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation 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• 11And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto 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, The Lord hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
 2But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever.
 3And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.
 4And he said, Blessed be the Lord 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 an 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.
 7Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.
 8But the Lord said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine heart:
 9Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.
 10The Lord therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built the house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.
 11And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of the Lord, that 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 out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
 9He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
 10And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
 11He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. (Psa. 18:8‑11)
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Psa. 97:2• 2Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne. (Psa. 97:2)
the thick.
Ex. 20:21• 21And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was. (Ex. 20:21)
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Lev. 16:2• 2And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail 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 the Lord spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a 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 are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, 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.