1 Kings 5:3
You knew + 5:3 Or, that my father David, etc. my father David, that he could not build a house to the name of the Lord my God + 5:3 Gr. from the face of. Hebraism. because of the wars that compassed him about, until the Lord put them under the + 5:3 Or, steps. soles of his feet.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
2And Solomon sent to Chiram, saying,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 14:5the stag, and doe, and pygarg, and + 14:5 Or, buffalo. wild goat, and camelopard.
2 Samuel 7:5Go, and say to my servant David, Thus says the Lord, You shall not build me a house for me to dwell in.
1 Chronicles 22:8But the word of the Lord came to me, saying, You have shed blood abundantly, and have carried on great wars: you shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed much blood upon the earth before me.
2 Chronicles 6:6But I chose Jerusalem that my name should be there; and I chose David to be over my people Israel.
Nehemiah 5:17And the Jews, to the number of one hundred and fifty men, besides those coming to us from the nations round about, were at my table.
Psalms 8:6and you have set him over the works of your hands: you have put all things under his feet: 1
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 5:2-10
Solomon's Agreement with Hiram. ( b. c. 1014.) 1 And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David. 2 And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying, 3 Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the Lord his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet. 4 But now the Lord my God hath given me rest on every side, so… Read the whole commentary →