2 Chronicles 6:1
Then said Solomon: Jehovah said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
In Context
2But I have built a house of habitation for thee, even a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.
Cross References
Exodus 24:15And Moses went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
Deuteronomy 4:11And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and obscurity.
Psalms 18:8There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals burned forth from it.
Nahum 1:3Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power, and doth not at all clear [the guilty]: Jehovah, his way is in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 6:1
The glory of the Lord, in the vehicle of a thick cloud, having filled the house which Solomon built, by which God manifested his presence there, he immediately improves the opportunity, and addresses God, as a God now, in a peculiar manner, nigh at hand. I. He makes a solemn declaration of his intention in building this house, to the satisfaction of the people and the honour of God, both of whom he blessed, ver. 1-11 . II. He makes a solemn prayer to God that he would please graciously to accept and answer all the… Read the whole commentary →