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1 Kings 8:11

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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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  1. 1 Kings 8:9

    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.

  2. 1 Kings 8:10

    And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the Lord,

  3. 1 Kings 8:12

    Then spake Solomon, The Lord said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

  4. 1 Kings 8:13

    I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.