Tree of Life Version
1 Kings 8:13
13I have surely built You a magnificent House, a place for Your dwelling forever.”
1 Kings 8:13 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.
- New International Version (NIV)I have indeed built a magnificent temple for you, a place for you to dwell forever.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)I have indeed built you an exalted house, a place for you to dwell in forever."
- New King James Version (NKJV)I have surely built You an exalted house, And a place for You to dwell in forever.”
Context of 1 Kings 8:13
11so that the kohanim could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of Adonai filled the House of Adonai. 12Then Solomon spoke: “Adonai said that He would dwell in the thick cloud. I have surely built You a magnificent House, a place for Your dwelling forever.” 14Then the king turned his face about and blessed the whole congregation of Israel while the whole congregation of Israel was standing. 15He said: “Blessed be Adonai, the God of Israel, who spoke with His mouth to my father David, and has fulfilled it by His hand, saying:
Read all of 1 Kings 81 Kings 8:13 word by word
בָּנֹ֥ה בָנִ֛יתִי בֵּ֥ית זְבֻ֖ל לָ֑ךְ מָכ֥וֹן לְשִׁבְתְּךָ֖ עוֹלָמִֽים׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for 1 Kings 8:13
- 2 Samuel 7:13He will build a house for My Name, and I will establish his royal throne forever.
- 1 Chronicles 17:12He will build a house for Me and I will establish his throne forever.
- 1 Chronicles 22:10He will build a House for My name; he will be My son and I will be His Father. I will establish his royal throne over Israel forever.’
- 1 Chronicles 28:6“He said to me, ‘Solomon your son will build My House and My courts for I have chosen him to be a son to Me and I will be a father to him.
- 2 Chronicles 6:2I have built You a magnificent House and a place for You to dwell forever.”
- Psalms 78:68Instead He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.
- Psalms 132:13For Adonai has chosen Zion, He has desired it for His dwelling:
- John 4:21Yeshua tells her, “Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
- Acts 6:14For we have heard him saying that this Yeshua ha-Natzrati will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”
- Hebrews 8:5They offer service in a replica and foreshadower of the heavenlies—one that is just as Moses was instructed by God when he was about to complete the tabernacle. For He says, “See that you make everything according to the design that was shown to you on the mountain.”
- Hebrews 9:11But when Messiah appeared as Kohen Gadol of the good things that have now come, passing through the greater and more perfect Tent not made with hands (that is to say not of this creation),
Commentaries on 1 Kings 8:13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13I have surely built thee a house - He was now fully convinced that the thing pleased God, and that he had taken this place for his settled habitation.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-21Verses 12-21 Solomon encouraged the priests, who were much astonished at the dark cloud. The dark dispensations of Providence should quicken us in fleeing for refuge to the hope of the gospel. Nothing can more reconcile us to them, than to consider what God has said, and to compare his word and works together. Whatever good we do, we must look on it as the performance of God's promise to us, not of our promises to him.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12-13thick cloud: Solomon saw the cloud filling the inner sanctuary as a sign of God's presence. However, he knew that God could not be confined to a human-made temple (see 1 Kings 8:27). Solomon completed his task to build the temple (1 Kings 8:19; 1 Chronicles 28:10), trusting the promises that God would live in the sanctuary (see Exodus 15:17).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1313. I have surely built thee an house--This is an apostrophe to God, as perceiving His approach by the cloud, and welcoming Him to enter as guest or inhabitant of the fixed and permanent dwelling-place, which, at His command, had been prepared for His reception.Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Kings 8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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