1 Kings 8:13

Christian Standard Bible ®

I have indeed built an exalted temple for You, a place for Your dwelling forever.

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
I have surely built You a lofty house,A place for Your dwelling forever."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I have surely built You a lofty house, A place for Your dwelling forever."

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I haue built thee an house to dwell in, an habitation for thee to abyde in for euer.

Literal Translation
Building I have built a house of loftiness for You, a settled place for You to abide in forever.

Easy-to-Read Version
Now, Lord, I have built a beautiful Temple for you, where you may live forever."

Revised Standard Version
I have built thee an exalted house, a place for thee to dwell in for ever."

World English Bible
I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever.

King James Version (1611)
I haue surely built thee an house to dwel in, a setled place for thee to abide in for euer.

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

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I haue buylded an house, to be an habitacion vnto the: a seate, yt thou mayest dwell there for euer.

American Standard Version
I have surely built thee a house of habitation, a place for thee to dwell in for ever.

Bible in Basic English
So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.

Update Bible Version
I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever.

Webster's Bible Translation
I have surely built thee a house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.

New English Translation
O Lord , truly I have built a lofty temple for you, a place where you can live permanently."

New King James Version
I have surely built You an exalted house, And a place for You to dwell in forever."

Contemporary English Version
Now I have built a glorious temple where you can live forever."

Complete Jewish Bible
But I have built you a magnificent house, a place where you can live forever."

Darby Translation
I have indeed built a house of habitation for thee, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.

Geneva Bible (1587)
I haue built thee an house to dwell in, an habitation for thee to abide in for euer.

George Lamsa Translation
And I have surely built thee a house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.

Amplified Bible
"I have certainly built You a lofty house, A place for You to dwell in forever."

Hebrew Names Version
I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I have surely built Thee a house of habitation, a place for Thee to dwell in for ever.

New Living Translation
Now I have built a glorious Temple for you, a place where you can live forever!"

New Life Bible
I have built You an honored house, a place for You to live forever."

New Revised Standard
I have built you an exalted house, a place for you to dwell in forever."

English Revised Version
I have surely built thee an house of habitation, a place for thee to dwell in for ever.

Berean Standard Bible
I have indeed built You an exalted house, a place for You to dwell forever."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I have, built, a house as a high abode for thee, - A settled place for thee to abide in, for ages.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Building, I have built a house for thy dwelling, to be thy most firm throne for ever.

Lexham English Bible
I have certainly built a lofty house for you, a place for you to live forever."

English Standard Version
I have indeed built you an exalted house, a place for you to dwell in forever."

New American Standard Bible
"I have truly built You a lofty house, A place for Your dwelling forever."

New Century Version
Lord , I have truly built a wonderful Temple for you—a place for you to live forever."

Good News Translation
Now I have built a majestic temple for you, a place for you to live in forever."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y bildynge haue bildid an hows in to thi dwelling place, in to thi moost stidefast trone with outen ende.

Young's Literal Translation
I have surely built a house of habitation for Thee; a fixed place for Thine abiding to the ages.'

Contextual Overview

¹² Then Solomon said: The Lord said that He would dwell in thick darkness. ¹³ I have indeed built an exalted temple for You, a place for Your dwelling forever. ¹⁴ The king turned around and blessed the entire congregation of Israel while they were standing. ¹⁵ He said: May the Lord God of Israel be praised! He spoke directly to my father David, and He has fulfilled the promise by His power. He said, ¹⁶ "Since the day I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city to build a temple in among any of the tribes of Israel, so that My name would be there. But I have chosen David to rule My people Israel." ¹⁷ It was in the desire of my father David to build a temple for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. ¹⁸ But the Lord said to my father David, "Since it was your desire to build a temple for My name, you have done well to have this desire. ¹⁹ Yet you are not the one to build it; instead, your son, your own offspring, will build it for My name." ²⁰ The Lord has fulfilled what He promised. I have taken the place of my father David, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised. I have built the temple for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. ²¹ I have provided a place there for the ark, where the Lord 's covenant is that He made with our ancestors when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

surely built: 2 Samuel 7:13, 1 Chronicles 17:12, 1 Chronicles 22:10, 1 Chronicles 22:11, 1 Chronicles 28:6, 1 Chronicles 28:10, 1 Chronicles 28:20, 2 Chronicles 6:2

a settled: Psalms 78:68, Psalms 78:69, Psalms 132:13, Psalms 132:14, John 4:21-23, Acts 6:14, Hebrews 8:5-13, Hebrews 9:11, Hebrews 9:12, Hebrews 9:24

Reciprocal: Exodus 15:2 - an habitation Leviticus 26:11 - I will Deuteronomy 12:11 - a place 1 Chronicles 23:25 - that they may dwell in Jerusalem 2 Chronicles 6:34 - toward Matthew 23:21 - and by

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the sources of the watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I have surely built thee an house to dwell in,.... Turning himself from the priests and people, he quieted with a few words, he addressed the Lord; having built an house for him, for his worship and glory, with this view, that he might dwell in it, he was now, by the above token, fully assured it would be an habitation for him:

a settled place for thee to abide in for ever; which is observed in distinction from the tabernacle of Moses, which was often removed from place to place, otherwise this did not continue for ever; though Solomon might hope it would, at least unto the times of the Messiah; and indeed such a building on this spot, for such use, did continue so long, excepting the interval of the seventy years' captivity in Babylon.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 8:13. I have surely built thee a house — He was now fully convinced that the thing pleased God, and that he had taken this place for his settled habitation.