1 Kings 8:9

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹At that time Solomon assembled before him in Jerusalem the elders of Israel-all the tribal heads and family leaders of the Israelites-to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Zion, the City of David. ²And all the men of Israel came together to King Solomon at the feast in the seventh month, the month of Ethanim. ³When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the priests took up the ark, ⁴and they brought up the ark of the LORD and the Tent of Meeting with all its sacred furnishings. So the priests and Levites carried them up. ⁵There, before the ark, King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel who had assembled with him sacrificed so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered. ⁶Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim. ⁷For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its poles. ⁸The poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are there to this day. ⁹There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of the land of Egypt.¹⁰And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, the cloud filled the house of the LORD

Bible Verse Review
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nothing: Exodus 25:21, Deuteronomy 10:2, 2 Chronicles 5:10

in the ark: Exodus 16:33, Numbers 17:10, Hebrews 9:4

put there at Horeb: Exodus 25:21, Exodus 40:20, Deuteronomy 10:2, Deuteronomy 10:5, Deuteronomy 31:26

when: or, where, 1 Kings 8:21, Exodus 24:8, Exodus 34:27, Exodus 34:28, Deuteronomy 4:13, the cloud, Exodus 13:21, Exodus 14:24, Exodus 16:10, Exodus 24:16-18, Exodus 40:34, Exodus 40:35, Leviticus 16:2, Numbers 9:15, 2 Chronicles 5:13, 2 Chronicles 5:14, 2 Chronicles 7:1-3, Ezekiel 10:4, Revelation 15:8

Reciprocal: Exodus 16:34 - General Exodus 25:16 - General 2 Kings 23:2 - the book 2 Chronicles 5:9 - the ends 2 Chronicles 6:11 - I put the ark Jeremiah 31:32 - Not

Cross-References

Deuteronomy 28:65
Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.

Psalms 116:7
Return to your rest, O my soul, for the LORD has been good to you.

Isaiah 60:8
Who are these who fly like clouds, like doves to their shelters?

Ezekiel 7:16
The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, all moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity.

Matthew 11:28
Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

John 16:33
I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

There was nothing in the ark, save the two tables of stone which Moses put there at Horeb,.... That is, there were no other writings; or, as Ben Gersom says, no other part of the law, but the decalogue otherwise he observes there were in it Aaron's rod and the pot of manna, according to Hebrews 9:4 though the particle there may be rendered "at", or "with", or "by", Hebrews 9:4- : and so they might be not within it, but in some place on the sides of it, see

Deuteronomy 31:26,

when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt; about two months after.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Comparing this statement with Hebrews 9:4, it would seem that Solomon, now that the sacred chest had reached its final resting-place, and stood in a large chamber surrounded by tables 2 Chronicles 4:8, removed the pot of manna and the rod from the interior, and set them elsewhere in the holy of holies.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 8:9. Save the two tables of stone — Hebrews 9:4.