1 Kings 8:13

Good News Translation

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I have indeed built an exalted temple for you,a place for your dwelling forever.

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

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

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

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

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

Amplified Bible
"I have certainly built You a lofty 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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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."

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.'

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.

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

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

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."

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.

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

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

Contextual Overview

¹² Then Solomon prayed: "You, Lord , have placed the sun in the sky, yet you have chosen to live in clouds and darkness. ¹³ Now I have built a majestic temple for you, a place for you to live in forever." ¹⁴ As the people stood there, King Solomon turned to face them, and he asked God's blessing on them. ¹⁵ He said, "Praise the Lord God of Israel! He has kept the promise he made to my father David, when he told him, ¹⁶ ‘From the time I brought my people out of Egypt, I have not chosen any city in all the land of Israel in which a temple should be built where I would be worshiped. But I chose you, David, to rule my people.'" ¹⁷ And Solomon continued, "My father David planned to build a temple for the worship of the Lord God of Israel, ¹⁸ but the Lord said to him, ‘You were right in wanting to build a temple for me, ¹⁹ but you will never build it. It is your son, your own son, who will build my temple.' ²⁰ "And now the Lord has kept his promise. I have succeeded my father as king of Israel, and I have built the Temple for the worship of the Lord God of Israel. ²¹ I have also provided a place in the Temple for the Covenant Box containing the stone tablets of the covenant which the Lord made with our ancestors when he brought them out 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
When Noah was six hundred years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month all the outlets of the vast body of water beneath the earth burst open, all 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.