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1 Kings 8:27

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8:27 “God does not really live on the earth! 1  Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!

1 Kings 8:1

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Solomon Moves the Ark into the Temple

8:1 2 Then Solomon convened in Jerusalem 3  Israel’s elders, all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families, so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the Lord’s covenant from the city of David (that is, Zion). 4 

1 Kings 1:11

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1:11 Nathan said to Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother, “Has it been reported to you 5  that Haggith’s son Adonijah has become king behind our master David’s back? 6 

Psalms 16:2

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16:2 I say to the Lord, “You are the Lord,

my only source of well-being.” 7 

Psalms 106:2

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106:2 Who can adequately recount the Lord’s mighty acts,

or relate all his praiseworthy deeds? 8 

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[8:27]  1 tn Heb “Indeed, can God really live on the earth?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course not,” the force of which the translation above seeks to reflect.

[8:1]  2 tc The Old Greek translation includes the following words at the beginning of ch. 8: “It so happened that when Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple and his own house, after twenty years.”

[8:1]  3 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[8:1]  4 tn Heb “Then Solomon convened the elders of Israel, the heads of the tribes, the chiefs of the fathers belonging to the sons of Israel to King Solomon [in] Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the city of David (it is Zion).”

[1:11]  5 tn Heb “Have you not heard?”

[1:11]  6 tn Heb “and our master David does not know.”

[16:2]  7 tn Heb “my good [is] not beyond you.” For the use of the preposition עַל (’al) in the sense of “beyond,” see BDB 755 s.v. 2.

[106:2]  8 tn Heb “[or] cause to be heard all his praise.”



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