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1 Kings 9:8-10
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1 Kings 9:8-10
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8 This temple will become a heap of ruins;[a] everyone who passes by it will be shocked and will hiss out their scorn,[b] saying, ‘Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple?’ 9 Others will then answer,[c] ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who led their ancestors[d] out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served.[e] That is why the Lord has brought all this disaster down on them.’”
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10 After twenty years, during which Solomon built the Lord’s temple and the royal palace,[f]
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- 1 Kings 9:8 tn Heb “and this house will be high [or elevated].” The statement makes little sense in this context, which predicts the desolation that judgment will bring. Some treat the clause as concessive, “Even though this temple is lofty [now].” Others, following the lead of several ancient versions, emend the text to, “this temple will become a heap of ruins.”
- 1 Kings 9:8 tn Heb “hiss,” or perhaps “whistle.” This refers to a derisive sound one would make when taunting an object of ridicule.
- 1 Kings 9:9 tn Heb “and they will say.”
- 1 Kings 9:9 tn Heb “fathers.”
- 1 Kings 9:9 tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”
- 1 Kings 9:10 tn Heb “the two houses, the house of the Lord and the house of the king.”
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