1 Kings 9:8

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹Now when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all that he had desired to do, ²the LORD appeared to him a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon. ³And the LORD said to him, "I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple you have built by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time. ⁴And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and uprightness, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances, ⁵then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised your father David when I said, 'You will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.' ⁶But if indeed you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep the commandments and statutes I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods, ⁷then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them, and this temple that I have sanctified for My name I will banish from My presence. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples. ⁸And though this temple is now exalted, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?'⁹And others will answer, 'Because they have forsaken the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them. Because of this, the LORD has brought all this disaster upon them.'"

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at: 2 Chronicles 7:21, Isaiah 64:11, Jeremiah 19:8, Jeremiah 49:17, Jeremiah 50:13, Daniel 9:12

Why: Deuteronomy 29:24-26, Jeremiah 22:8, Jeremiah 22:9, Jeremiah 22:28

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:32 - and your Deuteronomy 28:37 - become 2 Kings 25:9 - he burnt 1 Chronicles 22:5 - exceeding 2 Chronicles 2:5 - great 2 Chronicles 2:9 - wonderful great 2 Chronicles 29:8 - to astonishment Job 18:20 - astonied Job 27:23 - hiss him Psalms 69:25 - Let their Psalms 78:69 - And he Jeremiah 5:19 - Wherefore Jeremiah 7:14 - as Jeremiah 9:12 - for Jeremiah 16:10 - Wherefore Jeremiah 18:16 - a perpetual Jeremiah 25:9 - an astonishment Jeremiah 29:18 - to be a curse Jeremiah 40:2 - The Lord Jeremiah 44:8 - a curse Jeremiah 44:22 - your land Lamentations 1:18 - hear Lamentations 4:12 - General Lamentations 5:18 - of the Ezekiel 5:8 - in the Ezekiel 27:36 - hiss Ezekiel 32:10 - amazed Ezekiel 36:3 - and ye Micah 6:16 - that Nahum 3:6 - will set Zephaniah 2:15 - every Zechariah 8:13 - a curse Matthew 24:2 - There Mark 13:2 - there Luke 19:44 - lay

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And at this house which is high,.... The house of the most High, as some render it, and in high esteem, fame, and glory, as well as it was built on an high hill, and was itself one hundred and twenty cubits high, 2 Chronicles 3:4, the Targum is,

"and this house which was high shall be destroyed:''

everyone that passeth by it shall be astonished; at the ruins of the temple, and of the city of Jerusalem, which had been so magnificent:

and shall hiss; in scorn and derision of the people of Israel, rejoicing in their ruin:

and they shall say, why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house? or suffered it to be done, to lie thus in waste and ruins; a land in which it had been said he delighted, and looked unto from one end of the year to the other, and a house he had taken up his dwelling in; surely something more than ordinary, they suggest, must be the cause of all this.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Hebrew text runs - “And this house shall be high: every one,” etc. The meaning appears to be, “This house shall be high” (i. e., conspicuous) “in its ruin as in its glory.”

And shall hiss - In contempt. This expression first appears in the time of Hezekiah 2 Chronicles 29:8; Micah 6:16. It is especially familiar to Jeremiah (Jeremiah 18:16; Jeremiah 19:8, etc.).