I Kings 8 King James Version Meaning & Chapter Analysis

1Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.

4And they brought up the ark of the Lord, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up.

2 Chronicles 1:3, 1 Kings 3:4, 2 Chronicles 1:3, 1 Kings 3:4, Exodus 40:2

5And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.

2 Samuel 6:13, 2 Samuel 6:13, 1 Kings 8:62, 1 Kings 8:63, 1 Chronicles 16:1

6And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims.

1 Kings 6:27, 2 Samuel 6:17, 1 Kings 6:19, 1 Kings 6:27, 2 Samuel 6:17

7For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.

8And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.

Exodus 37:4, Exodus 37:5, Exodus 25:13, Exodus 25:15, Exodus 37:4

9There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 25:21, Exodus 25:21, Hebrews 9:4, Hebrews 9:4, Exodus 40:20

10And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the Lord,

Exodus 40:34, Exodus 40:35, 2 Chronicles 7:1, 2 Chronicles 7:2, Exodus 40:34

11So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.

Ezekiel 44:4, Ezekiel 43:4, Ezekiel 43:5, 2 Corinthians 4:6, Leviticus 9:23

12Then spake Solomon, The Lord said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

Psalms 97:2, Psalms 97:2, 2 Chronicles 6:1, 2 Chronicles 6:11, 2 Chronicles 6:1

13I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.

2 Samuel 7:13, 2 Samuel 7:13, Exodus 15:17, Hebrews 9:24, Psalms 132:13

14And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel stood;)

2 Samuel 6:18, 2 Samuel 6:18, 1 Chronicles 16:2, 1 Kings 8:55, 1 Kings 8:56

15And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which spake with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying,

Luke 1:68, Luke 1:68, 1 Chronicles 29:10, Nehemiah 9:5, 1 Chronicles 29:20

16Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.

1 Samuel 16:1, 1 Samuel 16:1, 1 Chronicles 28:4, 2 Samuel 7:4, 2 Samuel 7:8

17And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.

2 Samuel 7:2, 2 Samuel 7:3, 2 Samuel 7:2, 2 Samuel 7:3, 1 Chronicles 17:1

18And the Lord said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart.

2 Chronicles 6:7, 2 Chronicles 6:9, 2 Chronicles 6:7, 2 Chronicles 6:9, 2 Corinthians 8:12

19Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.

2 Samuel 7:5, 1 Chronicles 22:8, 1 Chronicles 22:10, 2 Samuel 7:5, 1 Chronicles 22:8

20And the Lord hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built an house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.

1 Chronicles 28:5, 1 Chronicles 28:6, 1 Chronicles 28:5, 1 Chronicles 28:6, Philippians 1:6

21And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the Lord, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 31:26, 1 Kings 8:9, Deuteronomy 31:26, 1 Kings 8:9, 1 Kings 8:5

22And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:

Ezra 9:5, Ezra 9:5, Exodus 9:33, 1 Kings 8:54, Exodus 9:33

23And he said, Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart:

2 Samuel 7:22, 2 Samuel 7:22, Deuteronomy 7:9, Deuteronomy 7:9, Daniel 9:4

24Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.

2 Samuel 7:16, 2 Samuel 7:16, 1 Kings 8:15, 2 Samuel 7:12, 1 Kings 8:15

25Therefore now, Lord God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.

1 Kings 2:4, 1 Kings 2:4, Jeremiah 33:17, Jeremiah 33:26, 2 Chronicles 6:16

26And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.

2 Samuel 7:25, 2 Samuel 7:29, 2 Samuel 7:25, 2 Samuel 7:29, Jeremiah 11:5

27But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?

2 Chronicles 2:6, Isaiah 66:1, 2 Chronicles 2:6, Isaiah 66:1, Jeremiah 23:24

28Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day:

Psalms 88:1, Psalms 88:2, Daniel 9:17, Daniel 9:19, 2 Chronicles 6:19

29That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.

2 Chronicles 6:20, 2 Chronicles 6:20, 1 Kings 8:16, Nehemiah 1:6, Deuteronomy 12:11

30And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.

1 Kings 8:36, 1 Kings 8:39, 1 Kings 8:34, 1 Kings 8:36, 1 Kings 8:39

31If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house:

Exodus 22:8, Exodus 22:11, Exodus 22:8, Exodus 22:11, Leviticus 5:1

32Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

Deuteronomy 25:1, Deuteronomy 25:1, Ezekiel 18:13, Ezekiel 18:20, Romans 2:6

33When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:

Leviticus 26:17, Leviticus 26:17, Deuteronomy 28:25, Deuteronomy 28:25, 2 Chronicles 6:24

34Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers.

Genesis 13:15, Daniel 9:25, Jeremiah 31:4, Jeremiah 31:9, Exodus 6:8

35When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:

Leviticus 26:19, 1 Kings 8:33, Deuteronomy 11:17, Leviticus 26:19, 1 Kings 8:33

36Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.

Psalms 27:11, 1 Samuel 12:23, Psalms 27:11, 1 Samuel 12:23, Jeremiah 6:16

37If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;

Leviticus 26:16, Deuteronomy 28:21, Deuteronomy 28:22, Leviticus 26:16, Deuteronomy 28:21

38What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:

Philippians 4:6, Psalms 73:21, Psalms 73:22, Amos 7:1, Amos 7:6

39Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)

1 Chronicles 28:9, 1 Chronicles 28:9, Jeremiah 17:10, Jeremiah 17:10, 1 Samuel 16:7

40That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

Psalms 130:4, Psalms 130:4, Revelation 19:5, Revelation 19:5, Hosea 3:5

41Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name’s sake;

1 Kings 10:1, 1 Kings 10:2, 1 Kings 10:1, 1 Kings 10:2, Acts 8:27

42(For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house;

Deuteronomy 3:24, Deuteronomy 3:24, Deuteronomy 4:6, Psalms 89:13, Daniel 2:47

43Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.

Psalms 102:15, 1 Samuel 17:46, Psalms 102:15, 1 Samuel 17:46, Psalms 22:27

44If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the Lord toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy name:

Psalms 132:13, Psalms 132:14, Numbers 31:1, Numbers 31:12, Deuteronomy 20:1

45Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

Psalms 9:4, Genesis 18:25, Psalms 9:4, Genesis 18:25, Jeremiah 5:28

46If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;

Ecclesiastes 7:20, Ecclesiastes 7:20, Proverbs 20:9, Proverbs 20:9, Isaiah 64:6

47Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;

Psalms 106:6, Psalms 106:6, Ezra 9:6, Ezra 9:7, Nehemiah 1:6

48And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:

Daniel 6:10, Deuteronomy 4:29, Jeremiah 29:12, Jeremiah 29:14, Daniel 6:10

49Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,

1 Kings 8:45, 2 Kings 19:19, Zechariah 1:15, Zechariah 1:16, 1 Kings 8:45

50And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:

Psalms 106:46, Psalms 106:46, 2 Chronicles 30:9, 2 Chronicles 30:9, Acts 7:10

51For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:

Nehemiah 1:10, Jeremiah 11:4, Deuteronomy 4:20, Nehemiah 1:10, Jeremiah 11:4

52That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee.

1 Kings 8:29, Psalms 145:18, 1 Kings 8:29, Psalms 145:18, Psalms 86:5

53For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.

Exodus 19:5, Exodus 19:6, Exodus 19:5, Exodus 19:6, Deuteronomy 32:9

54And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.

2 Chronicles 6:12, 2 Chronicles 6:13, Luke 22:45, 2 Chronicles 7:1, 2 Chronicles 6:12

55And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,

1 Kings 8:14, 1 Kings 8:14, 2 Samuel 6:18, 2 Samuel 6:18, Numbers 6:23

56Blessed be the Lord, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.

Joshua 23:14, Joshua 23:15, Joshua 23:14, Joshua 23:15, Joshua 21:44

57The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:

Joshua 1:5, Deuteronomy 31:6, Joshua 1:5, Deuteronomy 31:6, Deuteronomy 31:8

58That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.

Psalms 119:36, Psalms 119:36, Ezekiel 36:26, Ezekiel 36:27, Ezekiel 36:26

59And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the Lord, be nigh unto the Lord our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:

Psalms 141:2, John 17:9, Psalms 141:2, John 17:9, Psalms 102:1

60That all the people of the earth may know that the Lord is God, and that there is none else.

Deuteronomy 4:35, Deuteronomy 4:35, 2 Kings 19:19, 1 Kings 18:39, Jeremiah 10:10

61Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.

1 Kings 11:4, 1 Kings 11:4, 2 Kings 20:3, 2 Kings 20:3, 1 Kings 15:14

62And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the Lord.

2 Samuel 6:17, 2 Samuel 6:19, 2 Samuel 6:17, 2 Samuel 6:19, 2 Chronicles 7:4

63And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the Lord, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord.

Ezra 6:16, Ezra 6:17, Ezra 6:16, Ezra 6:17, Nehemiah 12:27

64The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that was before the Lord was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.

2 Chronicles 4:1, 2 Chronicles 4:1, 2 Chronicles 7:7, 2 Chronicles 7:7

65And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.

Numbers 34:5, Numbers 34:5, Numbers 34:8, 1 Kings 8:2, Numbers 34:8

66On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the Lord had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.

Deuteronomy 12:7, Deuteronomy 12:12, Zechariah 9:17, Acts 2:46, Philippians 4:4

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