Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.

New American Standard Bible

I have surely built You a lofty house,
A place for Your dwelling forever.”

King James Version

I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.

Holman Bible

I have indeed built an exalted temple for You,
a place for Your dwelling forever.

International Standard Version

Now I have been constructing a magnificent Temple dedicated to you that will serve as a place for you to inhabit forever."

A Conservative Version

I have surely built thee a house of habitation, a place for thee to dwell in forever.

American Standard Version

I have surely built thee a house of habitation, a place for thee to dwell in for ever.

Amplified


“I have certainly built You a lofty house,
A place for You to dwell in forever.”

Darby Translation

I have indeed built a house of habitation for thee, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.

Julia Smith Translation

Building, I built a house for thee to dwell, a place for thy resting forever.

King James 2000

I have surely built you a house to dwell in, a settled place for you to abide in forever.

Lexham Expanded Bible

I have certainly built a lofty house for you, a place for you to live forever."

Modern King James verseion

I have surely built a house of loftiness for You, a settled place for You to abide in forever.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

I have built thee a house to dwell in, and a habitation for thee to abide in forever."

NET Bible

O Lord, truly I have built a lofty temple for you, a place where you can live permanently."

New Heart English Bible

I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever."

The Emphasized Bible

I have, built, a house as a high abode for thee, - A settled place for thee to abide in, for ages.

Webster

I have surely built thee a house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.

World English Bible

I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever."

Youngs Literal Translation

I have surely built a house of habitation for Thee; a fixed place for Thine abiding to the ages.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּנה 
Banah 
Usage: 376

בּנה 
Banah 
Usage: 376

thee an house
בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053

to dwell in
זבל זבוּל 
Z@buwl 
Usage: 5

מכון 
Makown 
Usage: 17

for thee to abide in
ישׁב 
Yashab 
Usage: 1081

References

Easton

Hastings

Context Readings

Solomon's Proclamation To The Assembly Of Israel

12 Then Solomon said, O Lord, to the sun you have given the heaven for a living-place, but your living-place was not seen by men; 13 So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present. 14 Then, turning his face about, the king gave a blessing to all the men of Israel; and they were all on their feet together.

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:13

He will be the builder of a house for my name, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever.

Exodus 15:17

You will take them in, planting them in the mountain of your heritage, the place, O Lord, where you have made your house, the holy place, O Lord, the building of your hands.

1 Chronicles 17:12

He will be the builder of my house, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever.

1 Chronicles 22:10-11

He will be the builder of a house for my name; he will be to me a son, and I will be to him a father; and I will make the seat of his rule over Israel certain for ever.

1 Chronicles 28:6

And he said to me, Solomon your son will be the builder of my house and the open spaces round it; for I have taken him to be my son, and I will be his father.

1 Chronicles 28:10

Now then, take note; for the Lord has made selection of you to be the builder of a house for the holy place. Be strong and do it.

1 Chronicles 28:20

And David said to his son Solomon, Be strong and of a good heart and do your work; have no fear and do not be troubled, for the Lord God, my God, is with you; he will not give you up, and his face will not be turned away from you, till all the work necessary for the house of the Lord is complete.

2 Chronicles 6:2

So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.

Psalm 78:68-69

But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure.

John 4:21-23

Jesus said to her, Woman, take my word for this; the time is coming when you will not give worship to the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem.

Acts 6:14

For he has said in our hearing that this Jesus of Nazareth will put this place to destruction and make changes in the rules which were handed down to us by Moses.

Hebrews 8:5-13

Being servants of that which is a copy and an image of the things in heaven, as Moses, when he was about to make the Tent, had special orders from God: for, See, he said, that you make everything like the design which you saw in the mountain.

Hebrews 9:11-12

But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world,

Hebrews 9:24

For Christ did not go into a holy place which had been made by men's hands as the copy of the true one; but he went into heaven itself, and now takes his place before the face of God for us.

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