14So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.
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And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. …
And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD'S house.
Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD'S glory.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-14)Solomon, and the elders of Israel, had done what they could to grace the solemnity of the introduction of the ark; but God, by testifying his acceptance of what they did, put the greatest honour upon it. The cloud of glory that filled the house beautified it more than all the gold with which it was overlaid or the precious stones with which it was garnished; and yet that was no glory in comparison…
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