1 Kings 9:8

And this house, which is high, shall be so that everyone that passes by it shall be amazed, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Wherefore has the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?

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In The King James Version

And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?

In Context

7then will I cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and this house which I have consecrated to my name I will cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a desolation and a byword to all nations.

9a Then Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David into his house which he built for himself in those days.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:24and all the nations shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land? what is this great fierceness of anger?

2 Kings 22:17because they have forsaken me, and burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me with the works of their hands: therefore my wrath shall burn forth against this place, and shall not be quenched.

2 Chronicles 29:8And the Lord was very angry with Judah and Jerusalem, and made them an astonishment, and a desolation, and a hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

Jeremiah 19:8And I will bring this city to desolation and make it a hissing; everyone that passes by it shall scowl, and hiss because of all her plague.

Jeremiah 22:28Coniah is dishonored as a good-for-nothing vessel; for he is thrown out and cast forth into a land which he knew not.

Jeremiah 50:13And he shall break to pieces the pillars of Heliopolis that are in On, and shall burn their houses with fire.

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 9:2-10

God's Answer to Solomon. ( b. c. 1001.) 1 And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the Lord , and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do, 2 That the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon. 3 And the Lord said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall… Read the whole commentary →

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