2 Chronicles 7:2 BSB

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14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְלֹ֤א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
יָֽכְלוּ֙	ya.khe.Lu	they were able	H3201 →
הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים	ha.Ko.ha.Nim	the priests	H3548 →
לָב֖וֹא	la.Vo'	to go	H935 →
אֶל־	'el-	into	H413 →
בֵּ֣ית	beit	[the] house of	H1004 →
יְהוָ֑ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
מָלֵ֥א	ma.Le'	it filled	H4390 →
כְבוֹד־	khe.Vod-	[the] glory of	H3519 →
יְהוָ֖ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
בֵּ֥ית	beit	[the] house of	H1004 →
יְהוָֽה׃	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 6:5
Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD…
leads to
- Luke 5:8–9
  When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees. “Go away from me, Lord,” he said, “for I am a sinful man.”
- James 3:6–10
  The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on…
- Jeremiah 9:3–8
  “They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 1:6
  “Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I surely do not know how to speak, for I am only a child!”
Through
2 Chronicles 5:14
so that the priests could not stand there to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.
leads to
- Exodus 40:35
  Moses was unable to enter the Tent of Meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
- 1 Kings 8:11
  so that the priests could not stand there to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.
- Isaiah 6:1–4
  In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robe filled the temple.
- Revelation 15:8
  And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power; and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Exodus 40:34Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.Revelation 15:8And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power; and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.Exodus 40:35Moses was unable to enter the Tent of Meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.2 Chronicles 5:14so that the priests could not stand there to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.Exodus 24:17And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop in the eyes of the Israelites.Isaiah 6:5Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”Matthew 23:21And he who swears by the temple swears by it and by the One who dwells in it.

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