1 Kings 8:8 NIV,NKJV

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 8:1-66

The Temple being finished, the great ceremony of dedication commenced. The permanent link between Tabernacle and Temple was the Ark of the Covenant. With great care and impressive ceremony, they had carried the Ark over Jordan into the land. For a long time it had remained at Gilgal, and then was taken to Shiloh. Captured by the Philistines, it had brought discomfiture and defeat. For twenty years it had found a resting place at Kirjathjearim, then for three months in the house of Obed-edom,... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 8:1-11

The Bringing Of The Ark Into The Temple And The Manifestation Of God’s Presence (1 Kings 8:1-11 ). The moment for which Solomon had waited had eventually arrived. The Temple itself was now fully completed and stood there in its pristine glory, and all the furniture and embellishments had been made and put in place. Now the next thing that was necessary was to bring into it all that was ‘holy’ (set apart wholly to God, and seen as uniquely His) in Israel, for he wanted his Temple to be... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 8:1-66

1 Kings 8:1-Revelation : . Solomon’ s Dedication of the Temple, Prayer and Address.— This chapter is mainly Deuteronomic, being clearly written from the standpoint of one who has seen the Temple as the one national sanctuary of Israel, and has either witnessed its downfall or perceived that it was imminent. 1 Kings 8:1-: is, however, probably from the early record of how the house of Yahweh was dedicated by Solomon, of which 1 Kings 8:62-Revelation : is the continuation, the prayer of Solomon... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Kings 8:8

They drew out the staves; not wholly, which was expressly forbidden, Exodus 25:15; Numbers 4:6; but in part. In the holy place; either, first, Properly so called; which place was indeed before the oracle, But how then could it be said that they were not seen without, to wit, in the holy place? For that they should be seen without, to wit, in the court, was so ridiculous a conceit, that it had been absurd to suppose it, or to say any thing to prevent it. Nor is it much better what others say,... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Kings 8:1-9

THE DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLECRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—In the Vatican Sept. this chapter commences: And it came to pass when Solomon had made an end of building the house of the Lord, and his own house, after twenty years, then Solomon, &c.; but no other authority sustains the addition. Eleven months elapsed between the completion of the Temple and its dedication; it being finished in the eighth month (chap. 1 Kings 6:38), and opened in the seventh month of the following year (1 Kings... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 8:1-66

Chapter 8Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, and they brought the ark of the covenant into the temple, and as they did, the glory of the Lord came and filled the temple and there was just this glorious presence of God even as did take place at the time of the dedication of the tabernacle in the wilderness. Now again God's presence, the Shekinah glory of God, filling the temple.And Solomon there offered his prayer of dedication unto God. And this dedicatory... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 1 Kings 8:1-66

1 Kings 8:1 . Solomon assembled the elders, after twenty years’ labour. That is, in the fourth year of his reign he began to build the temple; in seven years and a half more he finished and dedicated it; and in thirteen years more he finished his palace. Hence he devoted twenty years to architecture and fortifications. 1 Kings 8:9 . Nothing in the ark, save the two tables of stone. The copy of the law written by Moses was, it is supposed from Deuteronomy 31:26, preserved in a safe, by... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Kings 8:1-9

1 Kings 8:1-9Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel.A royal priestIt is remarkable in connection with the dedication of the temple how the leading part was taken throughout by King Solomon. One would have thought that in the dedication of a sanctuary the leading men would have been the priests, Levites, scribes, and other persons distinctively identified with religious functions and responsibilities. We find, however, that exactly the contrary is the case. The priest occupied a second and... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 8:8

1Ki 8:8 And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy [place] before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day. Ver. 8. That the ends of the staves were seen. ] These made a lane, as it were, for the high priest when he entered into the most holy place: and showed that there was an ark, though covered. And there they are unto this day, ] i.e., Till the captivity of Babylon. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 1 Kings 8:8

drew out the staves: Exodus 25:14, Exodus 25:15, Exodus 37:4, Exodus 37:5, Exodus 40:20 ends: Heb. heads holy place: or, ark, as, 2 Chronicles 5:9 unto this day: Joshua 4:9, Matthew 28:15 Reciprocal: Numbers 4:6 - the staves Numbers 4:20 - the holy things Deuteronomy 10:5 - there they 1 Chronicles 15:15 - bare the ark read more