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1 Kings 9:8 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has the LORD done this to this land and to this house?’ "

1 Kings 9:8

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6 But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them,

7 then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have made holy for my name, out of my sight; and Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

8 Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has the LORD done this to this land and to this house?’

9 and they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the LORD their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them, and served them. Therefore the LORD has brought all this evil on them.’”

10 At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the LORD’s house and the king’s house

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2 Chronicles 7:21

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"This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the LORD done this to this land and to this house?’"

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Jeremiah 22:8

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"“Many nations will pass by this city, and they will each ask his neighbor, ‘Why has the LORD done this to this great city?’"

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Deuteronomy 29:24

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"Even all the nations will say, “Why has the LORD done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?”"

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Jeremiah 18:16

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"to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head."

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Genesis 19:13

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"for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown so great before the LORD that the LORD has sent us to destroy it.”"

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Jeremiah 5:19

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"It will happen when you say, ‘Why has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ Then you shall say to them, ‘Just as you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’"

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1 Kings 9:1

"When Solomon had finished the building of the LORD’s house, the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,"

1 Kings 9:2

"The LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon."

1 Kings 9:3

"The LORD said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually."

1 Kings 9:4

"As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances,"

1 Kings 9:5

"then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man on the throne of Israel.’"

1 Kings 9:6

"But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them,"

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