King James Version (KJV)
1 Kings 8:11
“So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.”
Verse in context — 1 Kings 8
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[There was] nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made [a covenant] with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
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And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy [place], that the cloud filled the house of the LORD,
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So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.
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Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
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I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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