1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 Kings 8:17 a house for the name of the LORD. The word “name” is used in vv. 1 Kings 8:16 and in vv. 1 Kings 8:22 to avoid saying that God himself actually dwells in the temple (see also 1 Kings 3:2; 1 Kings 5:3, 1 Kings 5:5). God’s presence in the temple was real, for God’s “name” represents all that he is (see note on Acts 10:48). But he was not to be thought of as actually “living” in the temple, as other nations imagined concerning their false gods.

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