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1 Kings 8:21

Egypt
Covenant and promises

19 Nevertheless, you are not the one to build it; but your son, your own offspring, will build the house for My Name.’

20 Now the LORD has fulfilled the word that He spoke. I have succeeded my father David, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised. I have built the house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

And there I have provided a place for the ark, which contains the covenant of the LORD that He made with our fathers when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.”

22 Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,

23 and said: “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.

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BSB
And there I have provided a place for the ark, which contains the covenant of the LORD that He made with our fathers when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.”
KJV
And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
WEB
There I have set a place for the ark, in which is the LORD’s covenant, which he made with our fathers when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”
ASV
And there have I set a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of Jehovah, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
DARBY
And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of Jehovah, which he made with our fathers when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
BLB
And I have made a place there for the ark, in which there [is] the covenant of YHWH that He made with our fathers when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.”
ÅB
Og der har jeg stelt til et rom for arken, hvori Herrens pakt er, den pakt som han gjorde med våre fedre da han førte dem ut av Egypt.
OTB
Og jeg har satt der et sted for arken, der Herrens pakt er, som Han gjorde med våre fedre da Han førte dem ut av landet Egypt."
B1930
Og der har jeg stelt til et rum for arken, hvori Herrens pakt er, den pakt som han gjorde med våre fedre da han førte dem ut av Egyptens land.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 1 Kings 8:9

    There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of the land of Egypt.

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  • Deuteronomy 31:26

    “Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, so that it may remain there as a witness against you.

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  • 1 Kings 8:5–6

    There, before the ark, King Solomon and the whole congregation of Israel who had assembled with him sacrificed so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.

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  • Deuteronomy 9:9

    When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.

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  • Deuteronomy 9:11

    And at the end of forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

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  • Exodus 34:28

    So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.

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