1 Kings 6:13

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.

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וְשָׁ֣כַנְתִּ֔י

shâkan

H7931

“and · to dwell”

Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular

Appears 129× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 3:24

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root [apparently akin (by transmission) to H7901 through the idea of lodging]

TWOT: 2387

to settle down, abide, dwell, tabernacle, reside - (Qal) - to settle down to abide - to abide, dwell, reside - (Piel) - to make settle down, establish - to make or cause to dwell - (Hiphil) - to lay, place, set, establish, settle, fix - to cause to dwell or abide

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

9: words
8: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
5 nouns
2 particles

Verb forms

וְשָׁ֣כַנְתִּ֔י Qal · Sequential Perfect
אֶעֱזֹ֖ב Qal · Imperfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל Israel H3478 ×2

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to 1 Kings 6:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Deuteronomy 31:6 Be strong and of good courage, don't be afraid, nor be scared of them: for Yahweh your God, he it is who does go with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you.
Exodus 25:8 Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.
Leviticus 26:11 I will set my tent among you: and my soul won't abhor you.
Hebrews 13:5 Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you."
Revelation 21:3 I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, "Behold, God's dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
Deuteronomy 31:8 Yahweh, he it is who does go before you; he will be with you, he will not fail you, neither forsake you: don't be afraid, neither be dismayed.
1 Kings 8:27 But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
Joshua 1:5 There shall not any man be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not fail you, nor forsake you.

1 Samuel 12:22 For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people to himself.
1 Chronicles 28:9 You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts: if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
1 Chronicles 28:20 David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: don't be afraid, nor be dismayed; for Yahweh God, even my God, is with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of the house of Yahweh is finished.
Psalms 68:18 You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among men, Yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.
Psalms 132:12–13 If your children will keep my covenant, My testimony that I will teach them, Their children also will sit on your throne forevermore."
Isaiah 57:15 For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Ezekiel 37:26–28 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore.
2 Corinthians 6:16 What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people."

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Kings 6:13 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְשָׁ֣כַנְתִּ֔י בְּת֖וֹךְ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְלֹ֥א אֶעֱזֹ֖ב אֶת עַמִּ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל

I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.

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Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from a public-domain English Septuagint. How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וְאַשְׁרֵי שְׁכִנְתִּי בְּגוֹ בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וְלָא אַרְחֵיק יַת עַמִי יִשְׂרָאֵל:

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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on 1 Kings 6:13 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

1Ki 6:13 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.

Ver. 13. And I will dwell among the children of Israel.] This was a high favour: what is it then to the saints, that he will indwell in them. {2Co 6:16} We have no vines, said the Scythians, but we have gods. And, ενθα δε οι θεοι, here are household gods, said the philosopher, pointing to his poor cottage.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

According as he promised unto Moses, Exod. 25:22.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

13. and I will dwell among the children of Israel] This is an expansion of the promise made to David. The same words are used (Exo_29:45) in connexion with the furnishing and completion of the tabernacle. As God’s presence in both Tabernacle and Temple was to point on to the Incarnation, the fitness of the phrase on both occasions is manifest.

and will not forsake my people Israel] The threat that God would do so, if Israel were disobedient, is found Deu_31:17.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And I will dwell among the children of Israel,.... In this house now building, and which was in the middle of the land, and where he would meet with them, and accept their sacrifices, not only of slain beasts, but of prayer and praise:

and will not forsake my people Israel; and leave them to the mercy of their enemies, and to be carried captive by them, but protect and defend them.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The first promise to “dwell among” the Israelites had been made to Moses Exo 25:8; Exo 29:45, but had not been repeated to David. The next promise, “I will not forsake, etc.,” if not absolutely new, seems to have been more positive and general than previous similar promises Deu 31:6, Deu 31:8; Jos 1:5. God will not at any time or under any circumstances wholly forsake Israel.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel cf. Deu_31:6. A fresh element is here introduced into the promise, arising out of the erection of the temple. God had pledged His presence to the tabernacle (Exo_25:8 Exo_29:45; Lev_26:11) And the temple was reared to be His dwelling (1Ki_8:13; 2Ch_6:2) He now assures the royal builder that he will occupy it. Jehovah Shammah. (Eze_48:35) The covenant relation shall be more firmly established.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

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1 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 9 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shâkan (“to dwell”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “to dwell” (shâkan) contribute to the verse as a whole?
How does Deuteronomy 31:6, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “Israel” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
«וְשָׁ֣כַנְתִּ֔י» is a Qal Sequential Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
“Israel” occurs 2× in this single verse.
8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.