1 Kings 9:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁸ And this house will become a heap of ruins; everyone passing by it will be astonished, and will hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ and at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ This house shall become a heap of ruins; every passerby shall be astonished and shall hiss [with surprise] and say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ And though this house is so high, yet shall every one that passeth by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath Jehovah done thus unto this land, and to this house?

Common English Bible

⁸ Everyone who passes by this temple, so lofty now, will be shocked and will whistle, wondering, Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and this temple?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ And this house will become an example: anyone who passes by it will be stupefied, and he will hiss and say, 'Why has the Lord acted in this way to this land and to this house?'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ And this house shall be made an example of. Every one that shall pass by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss, and say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?

1 Kings 9:8 Cross References

2 Kings 22:17

Because they have forsaken me and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath will be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.

2 Kings 25:9

And he burned the house of the Lord, and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.

2 Chronicles 29:8

Therefore the wrath of the Lord came on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has made them an object of horror, of astonishment, and of hissing, as you see with your own eyes.

2 Chronicles 36:19

And they burned the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its precious vessels.

2 Chronicles 7:21

And at this house, which is exalted, every one passing by will be astonished, and say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’

Isaiah 64:11

Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, has been burned by fire, and all our pleasant places have become ruins.

Jeremiah 16:10

“And when you tell this people all these words, and they say to you, ‘Why has the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?’

Jeremiah 18:16

making their land a horror, a thing to be hissed at for ever. Every one who passes by it is horrified and shakes his head.

Jeremiah 19:8

And I will make this city a horror, a thing to be hissed at; every one who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters.

Jeremiah 22:28

Is this man Coniah a despised, broken pot, a vessel no one cares for? Why are he and his children hurled and cast into a land which they do not know?

Jeremiah 25:9

behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, says the Lord, and for Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about; I will utterly destroy them, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.

Jeremiah 44:8

Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to live, that you may be cut off and become a curse and a taunt among all the nations of the earth?

Jeremiah 49:17

“Edom shall become a horror; every one who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters.

Jeremiah 5:19

And when your people say, ‘Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?’ you shall say to them, ‘As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’ ”

Jeremiah 50:13

Because of the wrath of the Lord she shall not be inhabited, but shall be an utter desolation; every one who passes by Babylon shall be appalled, and hiss because of all her wounds.

Jeremiah 52:13

And he burned the house of the Lord, and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.

Lamentations 2:15

All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem; “Is this the city which was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”

Daniel 9:12

He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, by bringing upon us a great calamity; for under the whole heaven there has not been done the like of what has been done against Jerusalem.

Deuteronomy 28:37

And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away.

Deuteronomy 29:23

the whole land brimstone and salt, and a burnt-out waste, unsown, and growing nothing, where no grass can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath —