2 Chronicles 6:1
Good News Translation
Then King Solomon prayed, "LORD, you have chosen to live in clouds and darkness.

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

Contemporary English Version
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 promised that he would dwell in a cloud.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

The Lord

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

Exodus 24:15-18 And when Moses was gone up, a cloud covered the mount. . . .

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 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.

1 Kings 8:12 Then Solomon said: The Lord said 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.

Nahum 1:3 The Lord is patient, and great in power, and will not cleanse and acquit the guilty. The Lord's ways are in a tempest, and a whirlwind, and clouds are the dust of his feet.

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
1Then Solomon said: The Lord promised that he would dwell in a cloud.2But I have built a house to his name, that he might dwell there for ever.…
Cross References
1 Kings 8:12
Then Solomon said: The Lord said that he would dwell in a cloud.

2 Chronicles 6:2
But I have built a house to his name, that he might dwell there for ever.

2 Chronicles 5:14
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