1 Kings 8

1 Kings 8:10

Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover; howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall surely die.

Go, say unto him, The disease is not in itself deadly; but such as thou mayest well, in course of nature, recover: but withal, I must tell thee, that the Lord hath shewed me, that he shall die by another means; and shall not rise from the bed of his sickness.

1 Kings 8:13

But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?

Why doth my Lord speak so foul, and bloody things of me? He must be extremely savage and cruel, that should do such violences. For me, I do not find in myself any such brutish and tyrannous disposition.

1 Kings 8:31

If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house.

If in a case of some great trespass against a man’s life, good name, estate, there cannot be other evidences brought forth, so as the matter must necessarily be determined by the oath of the party accused; and that oath shall be solemnly required of him before thy presence, at thy holy altar.

1 Kings 8:64

The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord, &c. because the brazen altar was too little, &c.

And Solomon, by command and instinct from God, required the priests to sanctify the pavement of the outer court, which was called the Court of the Priests, to the use of the sacrifices; for that the brazen altar, how great soever it was, could not be capable of these many offerings.

1 Kings 8:65

A great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.

A great congregation of all the subjects of Solomon, from the eastern borders of his dominions, to the western that reach unto that arm of Nilus, which runs towards Palestine.