1 Kings 8:12
Then said Solomon: Jehovah said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in thick darkness.
In Context
13I have indeed built a house of habitation for thee, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.
Cross References
Leviticus 16:2and Jehovah said to Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the sanctuary inside the veil before the mercy-seat which is upon the ark, that he die not; for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy-seat.
Deuteronomy 5:22These words Jehovah spoke to all your congregation on the mountain from the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the obscurity, with a great voice, and he added no more; and he wrote them on two tables of stone, and gave them to me.
Psalms 18:8There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals burned forth from it.
Isaiah 45:15Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 8:2-12
The Dedication of the Temple. ( b. c. 1003.) 1 Then 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. 2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. 3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. 4 And… Read the whole commentary →