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1 Kings 8:10-20

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10 When the priests came out of the Holy Place, a thick cloud filled the Temple of the LORD .
11 The priests could not continue their service because of the cloud, for the glorious presence of the LORD filled the Temple of the LORD .
12 Then Solomon prayed, “O LORD, you have said that you would live in a thick cloud of darkness.
13 Now I have built a glorious Temple for you, a place where you can live forever! ”
14 Then the king turned around to the entire community of Israel standing before him and gave this blessing:
15 “Praise the LORD, the God of Israel, who has kept the promise he made to my father, David. For he told my father,
16 ‘From the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have never chosen a city among any of the tribes of Israel as the place where a Temple should be built to honor my name. But I have chosen David to be king over my people Israel.’”
17 Then Solomon said, “My father, David, wanted to build this Temple to honor the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
18 But the LORD told him, ‘You wanted to build the Temple to honor my name. Your intention is good,
19 but you are not the one to do it. One of your own sons will build the Temple to honor me.’
20 “And now the LORD has fulfilled the promise he made, for I have become king in my father’s place, and now I sit on the throne of Israel, just as the LORD promised. I have built this Temple to honor the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
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1 Kings 8:10-20 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 8

This chapter gives an account of the introduction of the ark into the temple, 1Ki 8:1-9 of the glory of the Lord filling it, 1Ki 8:10,11 of a speech Solomon made to the people concerning the building of the temple, and how he came to be engaged in it, 1Ki 8:12-21, of a prayer of his he put up on this occasion, requesting, that what supplications soever were made at any time, or on any account, by Israelites or strangers, might be accepted by the Lord, 1Ki 8:22-53, and of his blessing the people of Israel at the close of it, with some useful exhortations, 1Ki 8:54-61, and of the great number of sacrifices offered up by him, and the feast he made for the people, upon which he dismissed them, 1Ki 8:62-66.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Some Greek texts add the line Is this not written in the Book of Jashar?
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