Verse 13
1 Kings 8:13
Literal Standard Version
13
I have surely built a house of habitation for You; a fixed place for Your abiding for all ages.”
Original Language Text
hebrew
בָּנֹ֥ה בָנִ֛יתִי בֵּ֥ית זְבֻ֖ל לָ֑/ךְ מָכ֥וֹן לְ/שִׁבְתְּ/ךָ֖ עוֹלָמִֽים
English Translation
I have built a house for you, a dwelling place for you to sit forever.
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Chapter 8 Context
1
Then Solomon assembles the elderly of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, princes of the father...
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and all the men of Israel are assembled to King Solomon, in the month of Ethanim, in the festival (t...
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And all the elderly of Israel come in, and the priests lift up the Ark,
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and bring up the Ark of YHWH, and the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that are in the tent...
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And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel who are assembled to him are with him before the...
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And the priests bring in the Ark of the Covenant of YHWH to its place, to the oracle of the house, t...
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for the cherubim are spreading forth two wings to the place of the Ark, and the cherubim cover over...
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and they lengthen the poles, and the heads of the poles are seen from the holy place on the front of...
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There is nothing in the Ark, only the two tablets of stone which Moses put there in Horeb when YHWH...
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And it comes to pass, in the going out of the priests from the holy place, that the cloud has filled...
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and the priests have not been able to stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of YHWH...
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Then Solomon said, “YHWH has said He is to dwell in thick darkness;
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I have surely built a house of habitation for You; a fixed place for Your abiding for all ages.”
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And the king turns his face around, and blesses the whole assembly of Israel; and all the assembly o...
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And he says, “Blessed is YHWH, God (Elohim) of Israel, who spoke by His mouth with my father David,...
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From the day that I brought out My people, even Israel, from Egypt, I have not fixed on a city out o...
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And it is with the heart of my father David to build a house for the Name of YHWH, God (Elohim) of I...
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and YHWH says to my father David, Because that it has been with your heart to build a house for My N...
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only, you do not build the house, but your son who is coming out from your loins, he builds the hous...
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And YHWH establishes His word which He spoke, and I am risen up instead of my father David, and I si...
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and I set a place for the Ark there, where the covenant of YHWH is, which He made with our fathers i...
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And Solomon stands before the altar of YHWH, in front of all the assembly of Israel, and spreads his...
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and says, “YHWH, God (Elohim) of Israel, there is not a God (Elohim) like You, in the heavens above...
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which You have kept for Your servant, my father David, that which You spoke to him; indeed, You spea...
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And now, YHWH, God (Elohim) of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, that which You spoke...
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And now, O God (Elohim) of Israel, please let Your word be established which You have spoken to Your...
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But is it true that God (Elohim) dwells on the earth? Behold, the heavens and the heavens of the hea...
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Then You have turned to the prayer of Your servant, and to his supplication, O YHWH my God (Elohim),...
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for Your eyes being open toward this house night and day, toward the place of which You have said, M...
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Then You have listened to the supplication of Your servant, and of Your people Israel, which they pr...
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that which a man sins against his neighbor, and he has lifted up an oath on him to cause him to swea...
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then You hear in the heavens, and have done, and have judged Your servants, to declare wicked the wi...
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In Your people Israel being struck before an enemy, because they sin against You, and they have turn...
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then you hear in the heavens, and have forgiven the sin of Your people Israel, and brought them back...
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In the heavens being restrained, and there is no rain, because they sin against You, and they have p...
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then You hear in the heavens, and have forgiven the sin of Your servants, and of Your people Israel,...
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Famine—when it is in the land; pestilence—when it is in the land; blasting, mildew, locust; caterpil...
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any prayer, any supplication that is of any man of all Your people Israel, each who knows the plague...
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then You hear in the heavens, the settled place of Your dwelling, and have forgiven, and have done,...
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so that they fear You all the days that they are living on the face of the ground that You have give...
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And also, to the stranger who is not of Your people Israel, and has come from a far-off land for You...
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for they hear of Your great Name, and of Your strong hand, and of Your outstretched arm—and he has c...
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You hear in the heavens, the settled place of Your dwelling, and have done according to all that the...
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When Your people go out to battle against its enemy, in the way that You send them, and they have pr...
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then You have heard their prayer and their supplication in the heavens, and have maintained their ca...
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When they sin against You (for there is not a man who does not sin), and You have been angry with th...
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and they have turned it back to their heart in the land to where they have been taken captive, and h...
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indeed, they have turned back to You with all their heart and with all their soul, in the land of th...
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then You have heard in the heavens, the settled place of Your dwelling, their prayer and their suppl...
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and have forgiven Your people who have sinned against You, even all their transgressions which they...
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for they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out of Egypt, out of the midst of th...
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for Your eyes being open to the supplication of Your servant, and to the supplication of Your people...
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for You have separated them to Yourself for an inheritance, out of all the peoples of the earth, as...
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And it comes to pass, at Solomon’s finishing to pray to YHWH all this prayer and supplication, he ha...
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and he stands and blesses all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
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“Blessed is YHWH who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He has spoken; not e...
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Our God (Elohim) YHWH is with us as He has been with our fathers; He does not forsake us nor leave u...
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to incline our heart to Himself, to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commands, and His statutes...
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and these, my words, with which I have made supplication before YHWH, are near to our God (Elohim) Y...
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that all the peoples of the earth may know that He, YHWH, is God (Elohim); there is none else;
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and your heart has been perfect with our God (Elohim) YHWH, to walk in His statutes, and to keep His...
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And the king and all Israel with him are sacrificing a sacrifice before YHWH;
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and Solomon sacrifices the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which he has sacrificed to YHWH: twenty-two...
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On that day the king has sanctified the middle of the court that is before the house of YHWH, for he...
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And Solomon makes, at that time, the festival—and all Israel with him, a great assembly from the ent...
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On the eighth day he has sent the people away, and they bless the king, and go to their tents, rejoi...
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