I Kings 8 New Heart English Bible Meaning & Chapter Analysis

1Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' households of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.

4They brought up the ark of the Lord, and the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; even these the priests and the Levites brought up.

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

5King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle, that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude.

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

6The priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim.

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

7For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above.

8The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: and there they are to this day.

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

9There was nothing in the ark except 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

10It came to pass, when the priests had 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 by reason of the cloud; for the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord.

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

12Then Solomon said, "The Lord has 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 you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever."

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

14The king turned his face about, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: and all the assembly of Israel stood.

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

15He said, "Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David your father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying,

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

16'Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; 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

17"Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

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

18But the Lord said to David my father, 'Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.

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

19Nevertheless, you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.'

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

20The Lord has established his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

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

21There I have set a place for the ark, in which 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

22Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly 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, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keep covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;

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

24who have kept with your servant David my father that which you promised him. Yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your 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

25Now therefore, may the Lord, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, 'There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.'

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

26"Now therefore, God of Israel, please let your word be verified, which you spoke to your 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 in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

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

28Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and for his supplication, Lord my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you this day;

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

29that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, 'My name shall be there;' to listen to the prayer which your servant shall pray toward this place.

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

30Listen to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place. Yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive.

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

31"If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swear before your altar in this house;

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

32then hear in heaven, and do, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own 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

33"When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house:

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

34then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers.

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

35"When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them:

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

36then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

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

37"If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;

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

38whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know 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 in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know 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 you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.

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

41"Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for your 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 your great name, and of your mighty hand, and of your outstretched 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 in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.

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

44"If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to the Lord toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name;

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

45then hear 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 you (for there is no man who doesn't sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

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

47yet if they shall repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, 'We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;'

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

48if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name:

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

49then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your 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 your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those 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

51(for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought 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 your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you.

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

53For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord God."

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

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

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

55He stood, and blessed all the assembly 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

56"Blessed be the Lord, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant.

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

57May the 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 to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.

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

59Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before the Lord, be near to the Lord our God day and night, that he may maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as every day shall require;

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

60that all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord, he is God. There is none else.

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

61"Let 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

62The 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

63Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to the Lord, two and twenty thousand head of cattle, and one hundred 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 the king made the middle of the court holy that was before the house of the Lord; for there he offered the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before the Lord was too little to receive the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings.

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

65So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook 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 to their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the Lord had shown to David his servant, and to Israel his people.

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

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