World English Bible
1 Kings 8:10
“It came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of Yahweh,”
Verse in context — 1 Kings 8
The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: and there they are to this day.
There was nothing in the ark except the two tables of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
It came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of Yahweh,
so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh.
Then Solomon said, "Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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