2 Chronicles 6:1

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2 Chronicles 6:1

Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

The lord

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The lord

And the people stood at a distance, and Moses approached the very thick cloud where God was.

And Moses went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

And Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell your brother Aaron [that] he should not enter at any time into the sanctuary {behind} the curtain {in front of} the atonement cover that [is] on the ark, so that he might not die, because I appear in the cloud over the atonement cover.

And [so] you came near, and you stood under the mountain, and the mountain [was] burning with fire up to the heart of the heaven, {dark with a very thick cloud}.

Then Solomon said, "Yahweh has said that [he] would dwell in the very thick cloud.

Smoke went forth from his nose, and fire from his mouth consumed. Burning coals blazed from him.

Cloud and thick darkness [are] surrounding him; righteousness and justice [are] the foundation of his throne.

Yahweh is slow to anger but great [in] power; he will certainly not allow [the guilty] to go unpunished. {He marches} in storm wind and in gale; storm clouds [are the] dust of his feet.

For you have not come to something that can be touched, and to a burning fire, and to darkness, and to gloom, and to a whirlwind,