1 Kings 8:12

Word by word — the Hebrew

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

• Psalms 97:2 Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
• 2 Chronicles 6:1-11 Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
• Leviticus 16:2 And 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 mer…
• Isaiah 45:15 Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.
• Exodus 20:21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
• Psalms 18:8-11 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
• Hebrews 12:18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
• Deuteronomy 4:11 And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick…

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Commentary

Dictionary and topics

• Darkness — The plague (the ninth) of darkness in Egypt (Ex. 10:21) is described as darkness “which may be felt.” It covered “all the land of Egypt,” so that “they saw not one another.” It did not extend to the…
• Prayer — Is converse with God; the intercourse of the soul with God, not in contemplation or meditation, but in direct address to him. Prayer may be oral or mental, occasional or constant, ejaculatory or…
• Shechinah — A Chaldee word meaning resting-place, not found in Scripture, but used by the later Jews to designate the visible symbol of God’s presence in the tabernacle, and afterwards in Solomon’s temple. When…
• Temple, Solomon’s — Before his death David had “with all his might” provided materials in great abundance for the building of the temple on the summit of Mount Moriah (1 Chr. 22:14; 29:4; 2 Chr. 3:1), on the east of the…
• Darkness · .See al — .See al
• Dedication · Subjects of: Temple of Solomon — Subjects of: Temple of Solomon
• Symbols And Similitudes · Darkness, of God’ s inscrutability — Darkness, of God’ s inscrutability
• Temple, The First · Solemnly dedicated to God by Solomon — Solemnly dedicated to God by Solomon

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).