1 Kings 8:12

Good News Translation

Then Solomon prayed: “You, Lord, have placed the sun in the sky, yet you have chosen to live in clouds and darkness.

Cross References

2 Samuel 22:10

He tore the sky open and came down, with a dark cloud under his feet.

1 Kings 8:11

shining with the dazzling light of the Lord's presence, and they could not go back in to perform their duties.

Nehemiah 8:5

As Ezra stood there on the platform high above the people, they all kept their eyes fixed on him. As soon as he opened the book, they all stood up.

Psalm 97:2

Clouds and darkness surround him; he rules with righteousness and justice.

Exodus 20:21

But the people continued to stand a long way off, and only Moses went near the dark cloud where God was.

Isaiah 45:15

The God of Israel, who saves his people, is a God who conceals himself.

Leviticus 16:2

He said, “Tell your brother Aaron that only at the proper time is he to go behind the curtain into the Most Holy Place, because that is where I appear in a cloud above the lid on the Covenant Box. If he disobeys, he will be killed.

Deuteronomy 4:11

“Tell your children how you went and stood at the foot of the mountain which was covered with thick clouds of dark smoke and fire blazing up to the sky.

Deuteronomy 5:22

“These are the commandments the Lord gave to all of you when you were gathered at the mountain. When he spoke with a mighty voice from the fire and from the thick clouds, he gave these commandments and no others. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

Hebrews 12:18

You have not come, as the people of Israel came, to what you can feel, to Mount Sinai with its blazing fire, the darkness and the gloom, the storm,