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1 Kings 8:10 Context: It came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of Yahweh,
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could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> filled the house of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Solomon Addresses the People</i></b></font><p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Then Solomon said,<br> “The L<font size="1">ORD</font> has said that He would dwell in the thick cloud. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>“I have surely built You a lofty house,<br> A place for Your dwelling forever.” <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>Then the king faced about and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel was standing. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>He said, “Blessed be the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, the God of Israel, who spoke with His mouth to my father David and has fulfilled <i>it</i> with His hand, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>‘Since the day that I brought My people Israel from Egypt, I did not choose a city out of all the tribes of Israel <i>in which</i> to build a house that My name might be there, but I chose David to be over My people Israel.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>“Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the name of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, the God of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>“But the L<font size="1">ORD</font> said to my father David, ‘Because it was in your heart to build a house for My name, you did well that it was in your heart. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>‘Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who will be born to you, he will build the house for My name.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>“Now the L<font size="1">ORD</font> has fulfilled His word which He spoke; for I have risen in place of my father David and sit on the throne of Israel, as the L<font size="1">ORD</font> promised, and have built the house for the name of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, the God of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>“There I have set a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, which He made with our fathers when He brought them from the land of Egypt.” <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>The Prayer of Dedication</i></b></font><p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>Then Solomon stood before the altar of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>He said, “O L<font size="1">ORD</font>, the God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and <i>showing</i> lovingkindness to Your servants who walk before You with all their heart, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>who have kept with Your servant, my father David, that which You have promised him; indeed, You have spoken with Your mouth and have fulfilled it with Your hand as it is this day. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>“Now therefore, O L<font size="1">ORD</font>, the God of Israel, keep with Your servant David my father that which You have promised him, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your sons take heed to their way to walk before Me as you have walked.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>“Now therefore, O God of Israel, let Your word, I pray, be confirmed which You have spoken to Your servant, my father David. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain You, how much less this house which I have built! <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>“Yet have regard to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplication, O L<font size="1">ORD</font> my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your servant prays before You today; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>that Your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, toward the place of which You have said, ‘My name shall be there,’ to listen to the prayer which Your servant shall pray toward this place. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>“Listen to the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place; hear in heaven Your dwelling place; hear and forgive. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>“If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath, and he comes <i>and</i> takes an oath before Your altar in this house, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>then hear in heaven and act and judge Your servants, condemning the wicked by bringing his way on his own head and justifying the righteous by giving him according to his righteousness. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>“When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy, because they have sinned against You, if they turn to You again and confess Your name and pray and make supplication to You in this house, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-34.htm" target="_top"><b>34</b></a></span>then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land which You gave to their fathers. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-35.htm" target="_top"><b>35</b></a></span>“When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain, because they have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name and turn from their sin when You afflict them, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-36.htm" target="_top"><b>36</b></a></span>then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants and of Your people Israel, indeed, teach them the good way in which they should walk. And send rain on Your land, which You have given Your people for an inheritance. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-37.htm" target="_top"><b>37</b></a></span>“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight <i>or</i> mildew, locust <i>or</i> grasshopper, if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness <i>there is,</i> <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-38.htm" target="_top"><b>38</b></a></span>whatever prayer or supplication is made by any man <i>or</i> by all Your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart, and spreading his hands toward this house; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-39.htm" target="_top"><b>39</b></a></span>then hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive and act and render to each according to all his ways, whose heart You know, for You alone know the hearts of all the sons of men, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-40.htm" target="_top"><b>40</b></a></span>that they may fear You all the days that they live in the land which You have given to our fathers. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-41.htm" target="_top"><b>41</b></a></span>“Also concerning the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel, when he comes from a far country for Your name’s sake <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-42.htm" target="_top"><b>42</b></a></span>(for they will hear of Your great name and Your mighty hand, and of Your outstretched arm); when he comes and prays toward this house, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-43.htm" target="_top"><b>43</b></a></span>hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know Your name, to fear You, as <i>do</i> Your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by Your name. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-44.htm" target="_top"><b>44</b></a></span>“When Your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way You shall send them, and they pray to the L<font size="1">ORD</font> toward the city which You have chosen and the house which I have built for Your name, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-45.htm" target="_top"><b>45</b></a></span>then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-46.htm" target="_top"><b>46</b></a></span>“When they sin against You (for there is no man who does not sin) and You are angry with them and deliver them to an enemy, so that they take them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-47.htm" target="_top"><b>47</b></a></span>if they take thought in the land where they have been taken captive, and repent and make supplication to You in the land of those who have taken them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned and have committed iniquity, we have acted wickedly’; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-48.htm" target="_top"><b>48</b></a></span>if they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who have taken them captive, and pray to You toward their land which You have given to their fathers, the city which You have chosen, and the house which I have built for Your name; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-49.htm" target="_top"><b>49</b></a></span>then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven Your dwelling place, and maintain their cause, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-50.htm" target="_top"><b>50</b></a></span>and forgive Your people who have sinned against You and all their transgressions which they have transgressed against You, and make them <i>objects of</i> compassion before those who have taken them captive, that they may have compassion on them <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-51.htm" target="_top"><b>51</b></a></span>(for they are Your people and Your inheritance which You have brought forth from Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace), <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-52.htm" target="_top"><b>52</b></a></span>that Your eyes may be open to the supplication of Your servant and to the supplication of Your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they call to You. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-53.htm" target="_top"><b>53</b></a></span>“For You have separated them from all the peoples of the earth as Your inheritance, as You spoke through Moses Your servant, when You brought our fathers forth from Egypt, O Lord G<font size="1">OD</font>.” <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Solomon’s Benediction</i></b></font><p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-54.htm" target="_top"><b>54</b></a></span>When Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and supplication to the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, he arose from before the altar of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread toward heaven. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-55.htm" target="_top"><b>55</b></a></span>And he stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying: <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-56.htm" target="_top"><b>56</b></a></span>“Blessed be the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He promised; not one word has failed of all His good promise, which He promised through Moses His servant. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-57.htm" target="_top"><b>57</b></a></span>“May the L<font size="1">ORD</font> our God be with us, as He was with our fathers; may He not leave us or forsake us, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-58.htm" target="_top"><b>58</b></a></span>that He may incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His ordinances, which He commanded our fathers. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-59.htm" target="_top"><b>59</b></a></span>“And may these words of mine, with which I have made supplication before the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, be near to the L<font size="1">ORD</font> our God day and night, that He may maintain the cause of His servant and the cause of His people Israel, as each day requires, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-60.htm" target="_top"><b>60</b></a></span>so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the L<font size="1">ORD</font> is God; there is no one else. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-61.htm" target="_top"><b>61</b></a></span>“Let your heart therefore be wholly devoted to the L<font size="1">ORD</font> our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as at this day.” <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Dedicatory Sacrifices</i></b></font><p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-62.htm" target="_top"><b>62</b></a></span>Now the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifice before the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-63.htm" target="_top"><b>63</b></a></span>Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the sons of Israel dedicated the house of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-64.htm" target="_top"><b>64</b></a></span>On the same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that <i>was</i> before the house of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, because there he offered the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat of the peace offerings; for the bronze altar that <i>was</i> before the L<font size="1">ORD</font> <i>was</i> too small to hold the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat of the peace offerings. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-65.htm" target="_top"><b>65</b></a></span>So Solomon observed the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before the L<font size="1">ORD</font> our God, for seven days and seven <i>more</i> days, <i>even</i> fourteen days. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/8-66.htm" target="_top"><b>66</b></a></span>On the eighth day he sent the people away and they blessed the king. Then they went to their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the L<font size="1">ORD</font> had shown to David His servant and to Israel His people. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/1_kings/8.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of Jehovah,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/1_kings/8.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the sanctuary, that a cloud filled the house of the Lord, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/1_kings/8.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And it came to pass when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of Jehovah,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/1_kings/8.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/1_kings/8.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And it came to pass, when the priests had come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/1_kings/8.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />It came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of Yahweh,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/1_kings/8.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And it cometh to pass, in the going out of the priests from the holy place, that the cloud hath filled the house of Jehovah,<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_f/the_matter_of_a_day.htm"> 'The Matter of a Day in Its Day'</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'At all times, as the matter shall require.'--1 KINGS viii. 59. I have ventured to diverge from my usual custom, and take this fragment of a text because, in the forcible language of the original, it carries some very important lessons. The margin of our Bible gives the literal reading of the Hebrew; the sense, but not the vigorous idiom, of which is conveyed in the paraphrase in our version. 'At all times, as the matter shall require,' is, literally, 'the thing of a day in its day'; and that is <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_f/the_matter_of_a_day.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_f/the_king_blessing_his_people.htm">The King 'Blessing' his People</a><br></span><span class="snippet">And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven. 55. And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying, 56. Blessed be the Lord, that hath given rest unto His people Israel, according to all that He promised: there hath not failed one word of all His good promise, which He promised by the hand of Moses <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_f/the_king_blessing_his_people.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/naylor/heart_talks/talk_five_blighted_blossoms.htm">Blighted Blossoms</a><br></span><span class="snippet">In our yard, a few feet from the door, stands an apple-tree. In the early spring I watched its swelling buds from day to day. Soon they burst forth into snowy blossoms, beautifying the tree, and filling the air with their fragrance. There was the promise of a bountiful crop of fruit. In a few days the petals had fallen like a belated snow. As the leaves unfolded and grew larger, there appeared here and there a little apple that gave promise of maturing into full-ripened fruit. But, alas! how few <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/naylor/heart_talks/talk_five_blighted_blossoms.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Wesley Naylor—</span><span class="citation2">Heart Talks</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/calvin/of_prayer--a_perpetual_exercise_of_faith/chapter_40_the_next_words.htm">The Next Words Are, which Art in Heaven. ...</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The next words are, WHICH ART IN HEAVEN. From this we are not to infer that he is enclosed and confined within the circumference of heaven, as by a kind of boundaries. Hence Solomon confesses, "The heaven of heavens cannot contain thee" (1 Kings 8:27); and he himself says by the Prophet, "The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool" (Isa. 56:1); thereby intimating, that his presence, not confined to any region, is diffused over all space. But as our gross minds are unable to conceive of <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/calvin/of_prayer--a_perpetual_exercise_of_faith/chapter_40_the_next_words.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Calvin—</span><span class="citation2">Of Prayer--A Perpetual Exercise of Faith</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/berry/adventures_in_the_land_of_canaan/chapter_nine_in_the_dungeon.htm">In the Dungeon of Giant Discourager</a><br></span><span class="snippet">IN THE DUNGEON OF GIANT DISCOURAGER I feel very discouraged at times, and sometimes the spells of discouragement hang on for a long while. I wonder if I am sanctified. From unaccountable sources, bad feelings of every description depress my soul, and along with these bad feelings come doubts that cast gloom over me. I have prayed and prayed that these feelings of discouragement might leave me; but they have not done so. I despair of prayer bringing me the help I need. Really, I know not what to do. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/berry/adventures_in_the_land_of_canaan/chapter_nine_in_the_dungeon.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Robert Lee Berry—</span><span class="citation2">Adventures in the Land of Canaan</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_old_law_enjoined.htm">Whether the Old Law Enjoined Fitting Precepts Concerning Rulers?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Objection 1: It would seem that the Old Law made unfitting precepts concerning rulers. Because, as the Philosopher says (Polit. iii, 4), "the ordering of the people depends mostly on the chief ruler." But the Law contains no precept relating to the institution of the chief ruler; and yet we find therein prescriptions concerning the inferior rulers: firstly (Ex. 18:21): "Provide out of all the people wise [Vulg.: 'able'] men," etc.; again (Num. 11:16): "Gather unto Me seventy men of the ancients of <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_old_law_enjoined.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Thomas Aquinas—</span><span class="citation2">Summa Theologica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/finney/systematic_theology/lecture_xl_sanctification.htm">Sanctification. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">VI. Objections answered. I will consider those passages of scripture which are by some supposed to contradict the doctrine we have been considering. 1 Kings viii. 46: "If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near," etc. On this passage, I remark:-- 1. That this sentiment in nearly the same language, is repeated in 2 Chron. vi. 26, and in Eccl. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/finney/systematic_theology/lecture_xl_sanctification.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Grandison Finney—</span><span class="citation2">Systematic Theology</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_g/the_new_temple_and_its.htm">The New Temple and Its Worship</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo: and they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia. 15. And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king. 16. And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_g/the_new_temple_and_its.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/calvin/the_institutes_of_the_christian_religion/chapter_7_the_law_given.htm">The Law Given, not to Retain a People for Itself, but to Keep Alive the Hope of Salvation in Christ Until his Advent. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">1. The whole system of religion delivered by the hand of Moses, in many ways pointed to Christ. This exemplified in the case of sacrifices, ablutions, and an endless series of ceremonies. This proved, 1. By the declared purpose of God; 2. By the nature of the ceremonies themselves; 3. From the nature of God; 4. From the grace offered to the Jews; 5. From the consecration of the priests. 2. Proof continued. 6. From a consideration of the kingdom erected in the family of David. 7. From the end of the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/calvin/the_institutes_of_the_christian_religion/chapter_7_the_law_given.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Calvin—</span><span class="citation2">The Institutes of the Christian Religion</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/sermon_xix_if_we_confess.htm">"If we Confess Our Sins, He is Faithful and Just to Forgive us Our Sins, and to Cleanse us from all Unrighteousness. If we Say We</a><br></span><span class="snippet">1 John i. 9, 10.--"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar," &c. And who will not confess their sin, say you? Who doth not confess sins daily, and, therefore, who is not forgiven and pardoned? But stay, and consider the matter again. Take not this upon your first light apprehensions, which in religion are commonly empty, vain, and superficial, but search the scriptures, and <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/sermon_xix_if_we_confess.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Hugh Binning—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/clarke/entire_sanctification/entire_sanctification.htm">Entire Sanctification</a><br></span><span class="snippet">By Dr. Adam Clarke The word "sanctify" has two meanings. 1. It signifies to consecrate, to separate from earth and common use, and to devote or dedicate to God and his service. 2. It signifies to make holy or pure. Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us. He was incarnated, suffered, died, and rose again from the dead; ascended to heaven, and there <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/clarke/entire_sanctification/entire_sanctification.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Adam Clarke—</span><span class="citation2">Entire Sanctification</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/1_kings/8-10.htm">1 Kings 8:10 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/1_kings/8-10.htm">1 Kings 8:10 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/1_kings/8-10.htm">1 Kings 8:10 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/1_kings/8-10.htm">1 Kings 8:10 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/1_kings/8-10.htm">1 Kings 8:10 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/1_kings/8-10.htm">1 Kings 8:10 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/1_kings/8-10.htm">1 Kings 8:10 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../1_kings/8-9.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Kings 8:9"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Kings 8:9" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_kings/8-11.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Kings 8:11"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Kings 8:11" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/1_kings/8-10.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-3753401421161123"; /* 120 x 600 new */ google_ad_slot = "2486977537"; google_ad_width = 120; google_ad_height = 600; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-3753401421161123"; /* 200 x 200 Parallel Bible */ google_ad_slot = "7676643937"; google_ad_width = 200; google_ad_height = 200; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>