1 Kings 8:12
Good News Translation
Then Solomon prayed: "You, LORD, have placed the sun in the sky, yet you have chosen to live in clouds and darkness.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Solomon said, “The LORD has said that he would dwell in thick darkness.

Contemporary English Version
Then Solomon prayed: "Our LORD, you said that you would live in a dark cloud.

New American Bible
Then Solomon said, “The LORD intends to dwell in the dark cloud;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then Solomon said: The Lord said that he would dwell in a cloud.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then Solomon said: The Lord said that he would dwell in a cloud.

The lord

Deuteronomy 4:11 And you came to the foot of the mount, which burned even unto heaven: and there was darkness, and a cloud and obscurity in it.

2 Chronicles 6:1,2 Then Solomon said: The Lord promised that he would dwell in a cloud. . . .

Psalm 18:8-11 There went up a smoke in his wrath: and a fire flamed from his face: coals were kindled by it. . . .

Psalm 97:2 Clouds and darkness are round about him: justice and judgment are the establishment of his throne.

the thick

Exodus 20:21 And the people stood afar off. But Moses went to the dark cloud wherein God was.

Leviticus 16:2 And he commanded him, saying: Speak to Aaron thy brother, that he enter not at all into the sanctuary, which is within the veil before the propitiatory, with which the ark is covered, lest he die, (for I will appear in a cloud over the oracle),

Deuteronomy 5:22 These words the Lord spoke to all the multitude of you in the mountain, out of the midst of the fire and the cloud, and the darkness, with a loud voice, adding nothing more: and he wrote them in two tables of stone, which he delivered unto me.

Isaiah 45:15 Verily thou art a hidden God, the God of Israel the saviour.

Hebrews 12:18 For you are not come to a mountain that might be touched and a burning fire and a whirlwind and darkness and storm,

Context
Solomon Praises the LORD
12Then Solomon said: The Lord said that he would dwell in a cloud.13Building, I have built a house for thy dwelling, to be thy most firm throne for ever.…
Cross References
Leviticus 16:2
And he commanded him, saying: Speak to Aaron thy brother, that he enter not at all into the sanctuary, which is within the veil before the propitiatory, with which the ark is covered, lest he die, (for I will appear in a cloud over the oracle),

2 Samuel 22:10
He bowed the heavens, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

1 Kings 8:11
And the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 6:1
Then Solomon said: The Lord promised that he would dwell in a cloud.

Nehemiah 8:5
And Esdras opened the book before all the people: for he was above all the people: and when he had opened it, all the people stood.

Psalm 18:11
And he made darkness his cover, his pavilion round about him: dark waters in the clouds of the air.

Psalm 97:2
Clouds and darkness are round about him: justice and judgment are the establishment of his throne.

1 Kings 8:11
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